Amphipora

Amphipora is an extinct genus of sponges, and type genus of the extinct family Amphiporaidae. Species are known from the Silurian to Devonian, over much of the northern hemisphere.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Amphiporidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 380 occurrencesSilurian — about 10 of 380 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 370 of 380 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 380 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 3 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 4 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 8 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 5 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 5 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 5 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 5 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 6 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 8 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 11 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 40 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 53 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 78 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 44 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 39 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 37 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 9 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 3 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 3 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 3 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence426.7 Mya372.15 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

380 occurrences of Amphipora 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

380 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

106 formations

Macocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°EVilemovice — 49.30°N, 16.75°EVilemovice — 49.33°N, 16.73°EVilemovice — 49.20°N, 16.70°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°ELazanky — 49.57°N, 17.25°ELazanky — 49.30°N, 16.75°ELazanky — 49.35°N, 16.72°EHa Lang — 22.68°N, 106.67°EHa Lang — 22.23°N, 106.18°EBan Pap — 21.18°N, 105.07°EBan Pap — 21.43°N, 104.12°EMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.13°WMartin — 34.88°N, 112.35°WMartin — 34.87°N, 112.09°WMartin — 34.45°N, 111.84°WSkajit — 67.67°N, 161.35°WSkajit — 67.53°N, 161.32°WSkajit — 67.61°N, 161.07°WSkajit — 67.88°N, 148.87°WSkajit — 68.18°N, 146.13°WSkajit — 67.40°N, 161.67°WLeduc — 53.55°N, 113.50°WLeduc — 53.95°N, 113.10°WCairn — 51.08°N, 115.35°WCairn — 53.18°N, 118.28°WCairn — 51.90°N, 115.93°WSwan Hills — 54.87°N, 115.75°WNam Can — 18.75°N, 105.75°EDonggangling — 25.50°N, 110.25°EDonggangling — 23.38°N, 106.57°ECu Bai — 17.23°N, 106.68°ETolovana — 65.29°N, 148.15°WTolovana — 64.98°N, 150.15°WTolovana — 65.09°N, 148.93°WAïn Khira — 33.72°N, 7.02°WChakiryul — 38.47°N, 74.37°ELost Burro — 36.33°N, 116.52°WLost Burro — 36.58°N, 117.07°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EMechra Ben Abbou — 32.97°N, 7.76°WMechra Ben Abbou — 32.64°N, 7.76°WPillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°EPillara — 17.40°S, 124.95°EAcanthopyge — 49.92°N, 14.07°E

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The named rock units Amphipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphipora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Amphipora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

672 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 173 sites for Amphipora, 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

106 references

Each of the 380 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. 94 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

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schulz 1883