Acanthopora

No picture of Acanthopora was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Acanthopora itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acanthopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteroporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 280 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrences425–415 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences415–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences413.02 Mya132.6 Mya425 Mya120 Mya

3 occurrences of Acanthopora on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

3 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

1 formation

Severnaya Zemlya — 79.50°N, 96.00°E

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The named rock units Acanthopora 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.

Acanthopora and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Acanthopora and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Acanthopora, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Acanthopora was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Acanthopora itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Acanthopora 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 itHeteroporidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849