Pterobranchia - Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Parent taxon: Acanthograptidae according to J. Maletz et al. 2020
See also Maletz 2006 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthograptus, Callograptus, Coremagraptus, Koremagraptus, Palaeodictyota, Ptiograptus, Thallograptus
Subtaxa: Dictyonema hamiltoniae Dictyonema macgillivrayi Dictyonema pulchellum Dictyonema ramosissimum Dictyonema splendens
Ecology: stationary planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (2: New Brunswick, Quebec collections), the Czech Republic (6), Germany (1), United States (1: New York)
• Silurian of Canada (3: Ontario, Québec), China (6), the Czech Republic (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (31: Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Wisconsin)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Bolivia (1), China (4), France (1), Morocco (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: Quebec), China (7), Estonia (5), France (1), Latvia (2), Lithuania (6), New Zealand (2), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (9: Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah)
• Canadian of United States (2: Idaho, Utah)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (3), Bolivia (3), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (35), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (1), United States (4: Montana, New York, Utah, Vermont)
• Cambrian of Australia (1), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), China (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 176 collections including 199 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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