Simplexodictyon

Simplexodictyon

Klaamann, Einar · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StromatoporellidaePBDB
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 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 40 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 33 of 40 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 6 of 40 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 6 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 5 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 11 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 1 occurrence396–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445.2 Mya393.47 Mya454 Mya387 Mya

40 occurrences of Simplexodictyon on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

40 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

17 formations

Uduvere — 58.23°N, 21.98°EUduvere — 58.27°N, 21.96°EBaruun-Urt — 46.67°N, 113.27°ESükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°EMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EWest Khatanzeya — 71.00°N, 58.00°EVoronin Beds — 56.25°N, 59.27°ESilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°ECu Brei — 14.28°N, 107.67°EArg — 39.20°N, 68.70°EBursykhirman — 39.20°N, 68.70°ESrednij — 79.62°N, 95.52°ESundre — 56.93°N, 18.28°EJaani — 58.57°N, 22.29°EMaasi — 58.45°N, 22.00°E

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The named rock units Simplexodictyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Simplexodictyon and its relatives

Silurian

Where Simplexodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

329 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Simplexodictyon, 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

21 references

Each of the 40 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. 9 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Simplexodictyon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Klaamann, Einar
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itStromatoporellidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bogoyavlenskaya 1965