Stictotrypa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinoporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Stictotrypa 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
10 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
7 formations
- Irondequoit Formation · Clinton Group2
- Joslin Hill Formation1
- Rochester Shale Formation1
- Irondequoit Limestone Formation · Clinton Group1
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group1
- Herkimer Formation · Clinton Group1
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The named rock units Stictotrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stictotrypa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Stictotrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Acanthoclema8 sites
- Dalmanites8 sites
- Eridotrypa8 sites
- Fenestella8 sites
- Dalmanella7 sites
- Schuchertella7 sites
- Homalonotus6 sites
- Mesotrypa6 sites
- Atrypa5 sites
- Atrypa reticularis5 sites
- Clathropora5 sites
- Enterolasma5 sites
- Favosites5 sites
- Fistulipora5 sites
- Leioclema5 sites
- Pterinea5 sites
- Semicoscinium5 sites
- Spirifer5 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)5 sites
- Whitfieldella5 sites
- Atrypina4 sites
- Calymene4 sites
- Chasmatopora4 sites
- Cheilotrypa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Stictotrypa, 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
5 references- The Clinton of Western and Central New York6
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology1
- Lichenaliid-Fistuliporoid crust-mounds (Silurian, New York-Ontario), typical early Paleozoic bryozoan reefs1
- Uppermost Clinton (Middle Silurian) stratigraphy and petrology, east-central New York1
- Silurian stratigraphy and palæontology of the Niagara escarpment in Ontario1
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

Picture of Stictotrypa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Stictotrypa 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 itRhinoporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1890