Calloporella

Bekker · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- HalloporidaePBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 456.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Calloporella 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
12 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
9 formations
- Pin Formation2
- Cystoid Limestone Formation2
- Waynesville Formation1
- Gabian Formation1
- Glauzy Formation1
- Ellis Bay Formation1
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The named rock units Calloporella 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.
Calloporella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Calloporella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
282 taxa- Atactoporella3 sites
- Hallopora3 sites
- Kukersella borealis3 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Amplexopora2 sites
- Bythopora2 sites
- Catazyga2 sites
- Ceramopora2 sites
- Chasmatopora hypnoides2 sites
- Corynotrypa2 sites
- Eridotrypa2 sites
- Grewingkia2 sites
- Hallopora elegantula2 sites
- Heterotrypa2 sites
- Hiscobeccus2 sites
- Homotrypa2 sites
- Lioclemella2 sites
- Lophospira2 sites
- Lyrodesma2 sites
- Matsutrypa rogeri2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Rafinesquina2 sites
- Ralfinella2 sites
- Sinuites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Calloporella, 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
8 references- New trepostomate bryozoans from the Upper Ordovician of Morocco and the temperature influence on zooid size2
- The upper Katian (Ordovician) bryozoans from the Eastern Iberian Chains (NE Spain)2
- Upper Ordovician bryozoa from the Montagne de Noire, Southern France2
- Upper Ordovician bryozoans of the Pin Formation (Spiti Valley, Northern India)2
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)1
- A Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) reefal bryozoan fauna from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: taxonomy and chemostratigraphy1
- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Advance Formation, a new upper Middle Ordovician unit, northern Rocky Mountains, British Columbia1
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
Each of the 12 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 Calloporella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Bekker
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Calloporella 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 itHalloporidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882