Aulopora repens

Aulopora repens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AuloporaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430.6 Mya375.2 Mya434 Mya371 Mya

4 occurrences of Aulopora repens 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

4 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

2 formations

Aisemont — 50.57°N, 5.33°ESteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°E

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The named rock units Aulopora repens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulopora repens and its relatives

Devonian

Where Aulopora repens and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aulopora repens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 4 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

Media content1

Picture of Aulopora repens

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Aulopora repens 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 itAulopora through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knorr and Walch 1775)