Ceriopora

Ceriopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CerioporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 290 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 65 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 65 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 65 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 65 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 65 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 65 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 65 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 65 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 65 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 65 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 65 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 65 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 65 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–213 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences213–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–112 Mya — about 5 occurrences112–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–81 Mya — about 6 occurrences81–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–61 Mya — about 10 occurrences61–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 12 occurrences10–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences293.52 Mya2.58 Mya305 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Ceriopora on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

65 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

18 formations

Denton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.52°N, 97.17°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°ESandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°ETetyukhinskaya — 44.56°N, 135.51°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.20°N, 5.48°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.25°N, 5.62°EBaucina — 37.82°N, 12.80°EKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WLithothamnium Limestone — 48.47°N, 16.30°ECopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WRhodes — 36.25°N, 28.17°ELagos- Portimao — 37.08°N, 8.23°WRoca — 37.88°S, 68.57°W

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The named rock units Ceriopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceriopora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ceriopora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,206 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Ceriopora, 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

37 references

Each of the 65 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. 25 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

Media content1

Picture of Ceriopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceriopora 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 itCerioporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1826