Synocladia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthocladiidaePBDB
- 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 least 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
69 occurrences of Synocladia 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
69 occurrences- Permian100%
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
13 formations
- Ford Formation28
- Zechstein Formation13
- Wargal Formation4
- Chhidru Formation3
- Road Canyon Formation3
- Zechstein Formation2
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The named rock units Synocladia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Synocladia and its relatives
PermianWhere Synocladia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
483 taxa- Rectifenestella retiformis25 sites
- Dielasma elongatum20 sites
- Acanthocladia anceps17 sites
- Parallelodon striatus17 sites
- Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria17 sites
- Bradyospira antrina16 sites
- Horridonia horrida15 sites
- Stenoscisma schlotheimi15 sites
- Cyathocrinites ramosus13 sites
- Permophorus costatus11 sites
- Pterospirifer alatus11 sites
- Strophalosia morrisiana11 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi10 sites
- Spiriferellina cristata10 sites
- Streblopteria pusilla10 sites
- Coledium globulinum9 sites
- Dasyalosia goldfussi9 sites
- Kingopora ehrenbergi9 sites
- Liebea squamosa9 sites
- Paraspiriferina multiplicata9 sites
- Peripetoceras freieslebeni9 sites
- Tunstallia helicina9 sites
- Acanthocladia8 sites
- Cleiothyridina pectinifera8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Synocladia, 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
22 references- Monograph of the Permian fossils of England12
- A revision of the Paleozoic bryozoan genera Synocladia and Thamniscus8
- Zechstein reef fossils and their palaeoecology8
- Die Bryozoen des mitteldeutschen Zechsteins7
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part V7
- A catalogue of the fossils of the Permian system of the counties of Northumberland and Durham6
- Species involved in Permian bryozoan bioherms, west Texas4
- Sedimentary history and biota of the Zechstein Limestone (Permian, Wuchiapingian) of the Jablonna Reef in Western Poland2
- Ueber einige Zechstein-Versteinerungen aus Schlesien2
- Pavlova et al., 19911
- Permian Bryozoa in South Qilian Mountains and East Kunlun Mountains of Qinghai Province1
- Upper Permian bryozoa from Guryul Ravine and the spur three kilometres north of Barus1
Each of the 69 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. 10 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 Synocladia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Synocladia 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 itAcanthocladiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1849