Tienodictyon

No picture of Tienodictyon 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 Tienodictyon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TienodictyidaePBDB
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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 16 occurrencesDevonian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 16 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 2 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence377–374 Mya — about 2 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.02 Mya375.2 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

16 occurrences of Tienodictyon on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

16 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

8 formations

Kowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EKowala — 50.87°N, 20.48°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°EVilemovice — 49.33°N, 16.73°EVilemovice — 49.20°N, 16.70°ECu Bai — 17.23°N, 106.68°ENelyudim — 63.50°N, 149.62°ELazanky — 49.30°N, 16.75°EBan Nguon — 21.18°N, 105.07°EBan Pap — 21.18°N, 105.07°E

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The named rock units Tienodictyon 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.

Tienodictyon and its relatives

Devonian

Where Tienodictyon and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tienodictyon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 Tienodictyon 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 Tienodictyon, 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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What may have been alongside itTienodictyidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yabe and Sugiyama 1941