Stereodictyum

No picture of Stereodictyum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Stereodictyum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 20 of 25 occurrencesPermian341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 4 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences330.3 Mya283.3 Mya341 Mya273 Mya

25 occurrences of Stereodictyum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

25 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

10 formations

Neal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.34°N, 103.15°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WHueco — 31.45°N, 104.88°WCoyote Butte — 43.95°N, 119.79°WDikanre — 42.38°N, 89.77°EGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.14°WLenox Hills — 30.38°N, 103.19°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.14°WGraford — 33.23°N, 97.83°WDiamond Peak — 39.63°N, 115.67°W

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The named rock units Stereodictyum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stereodictyum and its relatives

Permian

Where Stereodictyum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Stereodictyum, 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 25 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 content0

No picture of Stereodictyum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Stereodictyum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stereodictyum 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 itStereodictyidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finks 1960