Atelodictyon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtelodictyidaePBDB
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 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 425 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 92 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 91 of 92 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 92 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 2 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 5 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 13 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 14 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 9 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 7 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 8 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 7 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 4 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422.7 Mya365.2 Mya426 Mya358 Mya

92 occurrences of Atelodictyon 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

92 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

35 formations

Portilla — 43.00°N, 6.17°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.10°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.66°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.85°WPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WCairn — 53.18°N, 118.28°WCairn — 51.90°N, 115.93°WCairn — 50.75°N, 115.08°WCairn — 52.07°N, 116.12°WDewal — 33.78°N, 68.00°EDewal — 33.73°N, 68.08°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°ESwan Hills — 54.87°N, 115.75°WSin Ghar — 34.33°N, 68.40°ESin Ghar — 34.32°N, 68.35°ESin Ghar — 34.20°N, 68.25°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°ECandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.28°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.42°WVilemovice — 49.33°N, 16.73°EVilemovice — 49.20°N, 16.70°EBlue Fiord — 77.33°N, 86.83°WBlue Fiord — 77.71°N, 83.50°WBlue Fiord — 76.63°N, 87.65°WShell Rock — 43.09°N, 92.97°WLaoyefen — 24.45°N, 108.30°EMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°EGarra — 32.77°S, 148.82°EJemelle — 50.05°N, 4.52°ENelyudim — 63.50°N, 149.62°ENelyudim — 63.87°N, 149.07°EToshem — 61.27°N, 60.17°EToshem — 59.57°N, 59.98°EMikkwa — 58.39°N, 114.83°WCawak — 34.00°N, 68.03°EChakiryul — 38.47°N, 74.37°EWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WSadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°E

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The named rock units Atelodictyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Atelodictyon and its relatives

Devonian

Where Atelodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

328 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Atelodictyon, 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 92 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Atelodictyon 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 itAtelodictyidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lecompte 1951