Petridiostroma
Searched as Faciledictyon columnarium. The Paleobiology Database treats Petridiostroma as the accepted name.
No picture of Petridiostroma 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 Petridiostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GerronostromatidaePBDB
- 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 most 3.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 368.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Petridiostroma 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Petridiostroma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Petridiostroma and its relatives
DevonianWhere Petridiostroma and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Clathrodictyon6 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus4 sites
- Stromatopora4 sites
- Favosites favosus3 sites
- Favosites hisingeri3 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Arachnophyllum2 sites
- Catenipora vespertina2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Favosites abnormis2 sites
- Favosites favosiformis2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Mesofavosites obliquus2 sites
- Palaeofavosites septosus2 sites
- Pycnostylus2 sites
- Actinodictyon suevicum1 site
- Actinostroma quasifenestratum1 site
- Amphicyrtoceras1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Arachnophyllum approximatum1 site
- Arachnophyllum pentagonum1 site
- Armenoceras1 site
- Atrypa (Gotatrypa)1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Petridiostroma, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 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 Petridiostroma 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 Petridiostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Petridiostroma was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGerronostromatidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lessovaja 1991