Auloporida

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- TabulataPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 203 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
2,084 occurrences of Auloporida 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
2,084 occurrences- Ordovician6%
- Silurian16%
- Devonian37%
- Carboniferous26%
- Permian15%
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
508 formations
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group82
- Qixia Formation76
- Treskelodden Beds Formation72
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group70
- Tin Mountain Formation45
- Baraniy Formation41
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The named rock units Auloporida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 484 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 281 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Auloporida and its relatives
DevonianWhere Auloporida and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,549 taxa- Syringopora113 sites
- Bryozoa62 sites
- Fenestella55 sites
- Rugosa55 sites
- Caninia cornucopiae44 sites
- Cleiothyridina42 sites
- Crinoidea39 sites
- Spirifer34 sites
- Platycrinites33 sites
- Cladochonus31 sites
- Punctospirifer31 sites
- Dielasma30 sites
- Platyceras30 sites
- Fenestrata29 sites
- Productidae29 sites
- Fistulipora28 sites
- Aulopora27 sites
- Cystodictya27 sites
- Michelinia27 sites
- Barycrinus26 sites
- Sychnoelasma hawbankense26 sites
- Favosites25 sites
- Porifera25 sites
- Rhipidomella michelini25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,311 sites for Auloporida, and this reads 240 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
495 references- Late Carboniferous to early Permian Tabulata from Spitsbergen74
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation42
- Khayznikova, 198938
- Fossil associations in the High Tor Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of South Wales35
- Tabules Auloporida du Givetian at du Frasnian de Ferques (Boulonnais-France)33
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska32
- Chusenophyllum (Rugose coral) from the Chihsia Formation of Lower Permian, southern Anhui28
- Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]28
- Community paleoecological study of the Silica Shale equivalent of northeastern Indiana27
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland27
- Depositional Environments and Sequences, "Pleurodictyum Zone," Ludlowville Formation of Western New York25
- Faunal and Lithologic Cyclicity in the Centerfield Member (Middle Devonian: Hamilton Group) of Western New York: A Reinterpretation of Depositional History25
Each of the 2,084 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. 483 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 Auloporida
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- James St. John
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Auloporida 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 itTabulata through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1947