Atactopora
No picture of Atactopora was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Atactopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterotrypidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 1.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
6 occurrences of Atactopora on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Atactopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Atactopora and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Atactopora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
236 taxa- Amplexopora6 sites
- Ceramoporella6 sites
- Hallopora6 sites
- Isotelus6 sites
- Rafinesquina6 sites
- Sinuites6 sites
- Zygospira6 sites
- Ambonychia5 sites
- Bythopora5 sites
- Corynotrypa5 sites
- Cryptolithus5 sites
- Ctenodonta5 sites
- Cyclora5 sites
- Dermatostroma5 sites
- Escharopora5 sites
- Flexicalymene5 sites
- Homotrypa5 sites
- Iocrinus5 sites
- Lophospira5 sites
- Microceras5 sites
- Nereidavus5 sites
- Nuculites5 sites
- Onniella5 sites
- Ostracoda5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Atactopora, 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
2 references- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region5
- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Atactopora was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Atactopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atactopora 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 itHeterotrypidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.