Strombodes

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KyphophyllidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
26 occurrences of Strombodes 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
26 occurrences- Ordovician12%
- Silurian88%
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
14 formations
- Khaastyrka Formation4
- Brassfield Formation3
- Takuan Formation2
- Louisville Limestone Formation1
- Becscie Formation1
- Ningqiang Formation1
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The named rock units Strombodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Strombodes and its relatives
SilurianWhere Strombodes and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
323 taxa- Paleofavosites9 sites
- Propora9 sites
- Favosites8 sites
- Catenipora7 sites
- Dinophyllum7 sites
- Crassilasma6 sites
- Subalveolites6 sites
- Entelophyllum5 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus5 sites
- Halysites5 sites
- Septatrypa5 sites
- Alispira4 sites
- Baltisphaeridium4 sites
- Bazaricrinus parvulus4 sites
- Bystrowicrinus4 sites
- Cladopora4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Cyathactis4 sites
- Dalejina4 sites
- Distomodus kentuckyensis4 sites
- Ensipora4 sites
- Exochognathus4 sites
- Hesperorthis4 sites
- Holopea transversa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Strombodes, 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
17 references- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)4
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China3
- Some new and little-known Baltic Tetracorals3
- Paleoecology of framebuilders in Early Silurian reefs (Brassfield Formation, southwestern Ohio)2
- The corals of the Brassfield Formation (mid-Llandovery, Lower Silurian) in the Cincinnati Arch Region2
- Silurian rugose corals from the Kurosegawa Terrane, Southwest Japan, and their paleobiogeographic implications1
- Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)1
- Stratotype of the Porkuni Stage with comments on the Röa Member (uppermost Ordovician, Estonia)1
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region1
- Lower Silurian reefs and post-reef beds of the Attawapiskat Formation, Hudson Bay Platform, northern Ontario1
- Late Ordovician and Early Anthozoa of Anticosti Island, Quebec1
Each of the 26 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. 5 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 Strombodes
- 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 Strombodes 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schweigger 1819