Stringophyllum

Stringophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StringophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 78 occurrencesDevonian — about 78 of 78 occurrencesDevonian424–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 3 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 15 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 19 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 14 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 14 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.02 Mya383.4 Mya424 Mya371 Mya

78 occurrences of Stringophyllum 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

78 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

40 formations

Portilla — 42.83°N, 1.57°EPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WBurdekin — 19.73°S, 146.43°EBurdekin — 19.90°S, 146.23°EBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.17°ESchwelm Limestone — 51.30°N, 7.28°EBou Dib — 31.19°N, 4.93°WTorquay Limestone — 50.45°N, 3.50°WChercombe Bridge Limestone — 50.53°N, 3.65°WHorn Plateau — 62.25°N, 119.25°WHorn Plateau — 62.17°N, 117.83°WDonggangling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EDonggangling — 24.10°N, 109.98°EUnterhonsel — 51.36°N, 7.70°EUnterhonsel — 51.40°N, 7.81°EWadleigh Limestone — 55.53°N, 133.15°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.53°N, 133.17°WCandas — 43.49°N, 2.39°EBroken River — 19.50°S, 145.00°ERamparts — 66.23°N, 128.71°WRamparts — 65.28°N, 126.85°WHume — 65.28°N, 128.77°WHume — 65.63°N, 128.25°WNewberria — 51.15°N, 7.95°EMassenkalk — 51.38°N, 7.85°EMassenkalk — 51.38°N, 7.86°EOberhonsel — 51.30°N, 7.33°EBan Giang — 17.90°N, 105.82°EIhmert — 51.26°N, 7.65°ECombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 2.01°ECabanin Horizon — 72.00°N, 52.00°EHanonet — 50.05°N, 4.48°E

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The named rock units Stringophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stringophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Stringophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Stringophyllum, 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

35 references

Each of the 78 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. 23 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 Stringophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itStringophyllidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedekind 1922