Stylostroma

No picture of Stylostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stylostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylostromatidaePBDB
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 least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 13 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 13 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 13 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 4 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445.2 Mya365.2 Mya460 Mya357 Mya

13 occurrences of Stylostroma on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

13 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

Xiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EXiazhen — 28.71°N, 118.38°EDen — 41.57°S, 146.42°EWabamun — 55.83°N, 117.38°WStoktysh — 51.63°N, 90.30°EYaptikshor — 65.50°N, 60.50°ERaclawka — 50.17°N, 19.69°E

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

Stylostroma and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Stylostroma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Stylostroma, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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

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No picture of Stylostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stylostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Gorsky 1938