Stereodictyum proteron

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StereodictyumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318.6 Mya315.2 Mya323.9 Mya306.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Stereodictyum proteron on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

2 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

2 formations

Dikanre — 42.38°N, 89.77°EDiamond Peak — 39.63°N, 115.67°W

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The named rock units Stereodictyum proteron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Stereodictyum proteron and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Stereodictyum proteron and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Stereodictyum proteron, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Stereodictyum proteron was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Stereodictyum proteron was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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What may have been alongside itStereodictyum through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby 1972