Palaeodictyota

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Dendroidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dendroidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dendroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 494.2 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 10 occurrencesDevonian499–495 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences495–491 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–417 Mya — about 3 occurrences417–413 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494.2 Mya382.31 Mya499 Mya370 Mya

10 occurrences of Palaeodictyota 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

10 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

6 formations

Lochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°EFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WLochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°EBergisch Gladbach — 50.97°N, 7.15°EScopus — 40.81°S, 145.02°ECarmarthen — 51.83°N, 4.28°W

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

Palaeodictyota and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palaeodictyota and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Palaeodictyota, 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 10 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itAcanthograptidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whtifield 1902