Dictyonema Hall 1851 (graptolite)

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

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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)

• Arenig of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Bolivia (1), China (4), France (1), Morocco (1), United States (1: Montana)

• Klabava of the Czech Republic (1)

• Dawan of China (1)

• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: Quebec), China (7), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (5), France (1), Latvia (2), Lithuania (6), New Zealand (2), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (2), 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 (5), 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 (1), United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 176 collections including 196 occurrences

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