Bythopora

Bythopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BatostomellidaePBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 65 occurrencesOrdovician — about 64 of 65 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 65 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 5 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 7 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 9 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 17 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 12 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 7 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya432.9 Mya488 Mya425 Mya

65 occurrences of Bythopora 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

65 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

27 formations

Waynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.08°N, 85.25°WWaynesville — 41.00°N, 86.69°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 36.25°N, 83.97°WHermitage — 36.82°N, 84.52°WHermitage — 35.77°N, 85.01°WHermitage — 35.49°N, 85.26°WHolston — 35.92°N, 83.97°WHolston — 35.87°N, 84.07°WHolston — 36.33°N, 83.17°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WGeorgian Bay — 43.67°N, 79.42°WGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°EKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WTanners Creek — 39.42°N, 85.01°WTanners Creek — 39.73°N, 86.18°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMartinsburg — 38.93°N, 78.20°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WQueenston — 44.60°N, 80.58°WBills Creek — 45.85°N, 85.88°WBig Hill — 45.83°N, 86.95°WBowen — 36.63°N, 82.73°WRockdell — 36.37°N, 83.32°WBromide — 34.48°N, 96.97°W

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The named rock units Bythopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bythopora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bythopora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Bythopora, 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

19 references

Each of the 65 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. 7 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 Bythopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bythopora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Dyer 1878