Anthracoporella

Anthracoporella

Julius von Pia (1887–1943) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasycladalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 133 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 39 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 11 of 39 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 27 of 39 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 39 occurrences416–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–312 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences312–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence306–301 Mya — about 6 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 5 occurrences295–290 Mya — about 2 occurrences290–284 Mya — about 4 occurrences284–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–267 Mya — about 4 occurrences267–262 Mya — about 6 occurrences262–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–251 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences393.47 Mya259.857 Mya416 Mya251 Mya

39 occurrences of Anthracoporella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

39 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

13 formations

Auernig — 46.59°N, 13.17°EHeshan — 23.71°N, 109.24°EDelaware Mountain — 31.23°N, 104.51°WNeoschwagerina Beds — 46.37°N, 14.11°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EHouziguan Limestone — 25.75°N, 106.17°EShakhtau Reef — 53.63°N, 55.93°EPuentelles — 43.32°N, 4.87°WLores Limestone — 43.00°N, 4.48°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.55°WValdeteja — 43.35°N, 4.77°WSafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°ETrogkofel — 46.35°N, 14.30°E

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The named rock units Anthracoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthracoporella and its relatives

Permian

Where Anthracoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Anthracoporella, 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

25 references

Each of the 39 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. 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Anthracoporella

Credit
Julius von Pia (1887–1943)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anthracoporella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDasycladales through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1920