Ceratoporella

No picture of Ceratoporella 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 Ceratoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstroscleridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 259 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences272–263 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences263–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences245–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–227 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence259.857 Mya11.7 ka272 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Ceratoporella on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

6 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

1 formation

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°E

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The named rock units Ceratoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratoporella and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Ceratoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ceratoporella, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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

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No picture of Ceratoporella 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 Ceratoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratoporella 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 itAstroscleridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hickson 1911