Stelodictyon

Stelodictyon

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
ClathrodictyidaePBDB
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 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 29 occurrencesSilurian — about 27 of 29 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 29 occurrencesDevonian446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443.1 Mya413.02 Mya445.9 Mya409.9 Mya

29 occurrences of Stelodictyon 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

29 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

11 formations

Khkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EBrassfield — 39.81°N, 83.98°WTernava Suite — 48.87°N, 26.53°EMuksha subsuite — 48.00°N, 26.00°ERytteraker — 59.83°N, 10.43°EÄrina — 59.18°N, 26.20°EMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°EYangada — 67.13°N, 103.77°EAgidyl — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°E

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The named rock units Stelodictyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stelodictyon and its relatives

Silurian

Where Stelodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Stelodictyon, 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 29 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. 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 Stelodictyon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itClathrodictyidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bogoyavlenskaya 1969