Catenipora escharoides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CateniporaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
8 occurrences of Catenipora escharoides on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician13%
- Silurian88%
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
6 formations
- Upper Visby Formation2
- Moyerokan Formation2
- Lower Visby Beds Formation1
- Upper Visby Beds Formation1
- Visby Formation1
- Subica Formation1
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The named rock units Catenipora escharoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Catenipora escharoides and its relatives
SilurianWhere Catenipora escharoides and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
251 taxa- Favosites gothlandicus3 sites
- Oriostoma roemeri3 sites
- Paleofavosites3 sites
- Phaulactis3 sites
- Planalveolites3 sites
- Propora3 sites
- Resserella3 sites
- Thecia3 sites
- Tryplasma3 sites
- Wallacia laevis3 sites
- Alispira2 sites
- Apatobolbina2 sites
- Armenoceras2 sites
- Baltisphaeridium2 sites
- Borealis2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Calamoporoa alveolaris2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Ceramopora lindstromi2 sites
- Cerasina antiquata2 sites
- Clathrodictyon boreale2 sites
- Clisiophyllum2 sites
- Clorilamnulella undata2 sites
- Costatulites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Catenipora escharoides, 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
5 references- Silurian Reefs of Gotland3
- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)2
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)1
- Classification and controls of internal banding in Palaeozoic Stromatoporoids and colonial corals1
- Reefmounds im unteren Wenlock auf Gotland: Beispiele früher Korallenriffe [Reef mounds in the Lower Wenlockian of Gotland: examples of early coral reefs]1
Each of the 8 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 Catenipora escharoides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. Lamarck 1816