Carpathoporella

No picture of Carpathoporella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Carpathoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GorgonaceaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gorgonacea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gorgonacea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gorgonacea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141 Mya110.1 Mya143.8 Mya105.6 Mya

18 occurrences of Carpathoporella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

18 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

5 formations

Varciorog — 46.95°N, 22.28°EVarciorog — 46.92°N, 22.30°EAl Hassanat — 23.53°N, 57.93°ELapos — 46.80°N, 25.80°EValea Magurii — 46.95°N, 22.28°ETaft — 31.62°N, 53.81°E

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The named rock units Carpathoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carpathoporella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Carpathoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Carpathoporella, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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 content0

No picture of Carpathoporella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Carpathoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Carpathoporella 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 itGorgonacea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dragastan 1967