Callodictyon fragile

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106.3 Mya89.8 Mya110.6 Mya85.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Callodictyon fragile on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

4 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

"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 50.67°N, 17.95°E

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The named rock units Callodictyon fragile has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callodictyon fragile and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Callodictyon fragile and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Callodictyon fragile, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Callodictyon fragile was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1841)