Argentinodictya

Argentinodictya is an extinct genus of bryozoans which existed in what is now Argentina during the Late Ordovician. It was described by Andrej Ernst and Marcelo Carrera in 2012, and the type and only species is Argentinodictya lenticulata.

No picture of Argentinodictya 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 Argentinodictya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StictoporellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 5.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 452.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Argentinodictya on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

1 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

1 formation

Las Plantas — 29.75°S, 68.65°W

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

Argentinodictya and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Argentinodictya and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Argentinodictya, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Argentinodictya 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 Argentinodictya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Argentinodictya 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itStictoporellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ernst and Carrera 2012