Ecclimadictyon

Ecclimadictyon

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinodictyidaePBDB
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 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 42 of 229 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 187 of 229 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 229 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–444 Mya — about 10 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 18 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 44 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 35 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 21 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 8 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 7 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 10 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 10 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 10 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 9 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 4 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 4 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450.2 Mya422.7 Mya459 Mya418.8 Mya

229 occurrences of Ecclimadictyon on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

229 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

54 formations

Tamsalu — 58.39°N, 24.50°ETamsalu — 58.31°N, 24.90°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.47°ETamsalu — 58.87°N, 22.97°ETamsalu — 58.79°N, 22.83°ETamsalu — 59.14°N, 26.13°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.43°ETamsalu — 58.84°N, 23.06°ETamsalu — 59.16°N, 26.09°ETamsalu — 59.05°N, 24.45°ETamsalu — 58.99°N, 26.35°ETamsalu — 58.68°N, 26.09°EMerrimack — 49.60°N, 63.20°WMerrimack — 49.25°N, 61.78°WMerrimack — 49.62°N, 63.43°WMerrimack — 49.57°N, 63.13°WMerrimack — 49.28°N, 61.98°WJupiter — 49.13°N, 61.67°WJupiter — 49.17°N, 61.70°WJupiter — 49.37°N, 62.08°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.47°WJupiter — 49.10°N, 62.38°WJupiter — 49.27°N, 62.37°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.32°WJupiter — 49.13°N, 62.35°WJupiter — 49.27°N, 62.33°WJupiter — 49.33°N, 62.82°WJupiter — 49.07°N, 61.77°WJupiter — 49.07°N, 62.05°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.33°N, 61.97°WEllis Bay — 49.80°N, 64.40°WEllis Bay — 49.32°N, 61.83°WEllis Bay — 49.45°N, 62.30°WEllis Bay — 49.37°N, 62.18°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 62.53°WEllis Bay — 49.72°N, 63.83°WKhandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WBecscie — 49.38°N, 62.43°WBecscie — 49.73°N, 63.83°WBecscie — 49.33°N, 61.88°WKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EÄrina — 59.18°N, 26.20°ERumba — 58.86°N, 24.08°ERumba — 58.74°N, 24.08°EBelubula — 34.00°S, 149.00°EBelubula — 33.63°S, 148.78°EBelubula — 33.00°S, 148.00°ESteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°EEast Arm Dolomite — 53.70°N, 101.20°WEast Arm Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.80°N, 100.30°WKhatynbulak — 40.42°N, 67.00°EVarbola — 58.68°N, 26.09°EBallingoole Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EBallingoole Limestone — 33.00°S, 148.00°EVoronin Beds — 56.25°N, 59.27°EDen — 41.57°S, 146.42°EJuuru — 58.87°N, 22.97°ERytteraker — 59.83°N, 10.43°ESanjushan — 28.70°N, 118.35°ESanjushan — 28.72°N, 118.53°EBenjamin Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EVandon Limestone — 33.63°S, 148.78°EDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EBillabong Creek Limestone — 33.33°S, 147.97°E

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The named rock units Ecclimadictyon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ecclimadictyon and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ecclimadictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

731 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Ecclimadictyon, 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

49 references

Each of the 229 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. 37 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 Ecclimadictyon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ecclimadictyon 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nestor 1964