Ceramopora

Ceramopora is an extinct genus of bryozoan of the family Ceramoporidae. It is one of the earliest genera of bryozoans. Its colonies were thin and discoid, with large autozooecia, abundant communication pores, lunaria, and monticules with depressions in their centers. It had no acanthostyles or diaphragms, distinguishing it from Acanthoceramoporella.

Ceramopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeramoporidaePBDB
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 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 19 of 70 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 49 of 70 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 70 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 70 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 4 occurrences451–447 Mya — about 4 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 7 occurrences443–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 10 occurrences430–426 Mya — about 10 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 22 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468 Mya365.2 Mya479 Mya356 Mya

70 occurrences of Ceramopora 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

70 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

32 formations

Overton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WFranopol' — 52.00°N, 24.00°EOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WLoka — 58.57°N, 15.07°EVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EVasalemma — 59.23°N, 24.23°ECelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°ELower Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WRusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°EZel’van — 52.00°N, 24.00°EExshaw — 52.43°N, 116.92°WKeyser Limestone — 40.53°N, 78.38°WLower Visby — 57.85°N, 18.58°ETsagaan-Bulag — 44.38°N, 99.45°EChokusu — 49.13°N, 88.37°EKindblade — 34.92°N, 98.73°WWillowvale — 43.03°N, 75.28°WGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°EGlauzy — 43.53°N, 3.30°EPin — 32.02°N, 78.05°E

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The named rock units Ceramopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceramopora and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ceramopora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

877 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Ceramopora, 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

31 references

Each of the 70 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. 19 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

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Picture of Ceramopora

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No 3D scan of Ceramopora 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.

The description on this site

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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. Hall 1851