Ascodictyon

Ascodictyon

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 13 of 21 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 8 of 21 occurrencesCarboniferous412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–385 Mya — about 5 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 5 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–343 Mya — about 3 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 3 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence393.47 Mya346.7 Mya412 Mya338 Mya

21 occurrences of Ascodictyon 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

21 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

5 formations

Edwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSkaly — 50.88°N, 21.03°ETaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°EYehlan — 22.00°N, 108.00°E

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

Ascodictyon and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ascodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

463 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ascodictyon, 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

6 references

Each of the 21 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 Ascodictyon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ascodictyon 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 itAscodictyidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.