Schistodictyon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnostylostromatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 12 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 12 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 11 of 12 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 4 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 3 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya393.47 Mya444 Mya387 Mya

12 occurrences of Schistodictyon on record, most of them in the Devonian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

12 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

5 formations

Koneprusy — 49.92°N, 14.07°EHohe Warte Limestone — 46.62°N, 12.88°EXiangshuyuan — 27.50°N, 108.23°EAcanthopyge — 49.92°N, 14.07°EBlue Fiord — 77.25°N, 85.85°W

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The named rock units Schistodictyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schistodictyon and its relatives

Devonian

Where Schistodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Schistodictyon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

8 references

Each of the 12 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Schistodictyon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Schistodictyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnostylostromatidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lessovaja 1970