Chorizopora

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Sits inside

ChorizoporidaePBDB

Diet

suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata

Life habit

epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata

Motility

stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata

Vision

blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata

Environment

marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

• Miocene38%
• Pliocene31%
• Pleistocene31%

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.

Where Chorizopora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene. Draw the map

• Onychocella angulosa10 sites
• Calloporina decorata7 sites
• Figularia figularis7 sites
• Microporella ciliata7 sites
• Schedocleidochasma incisa7 sites
• Schizotheca fissa7 sites
• Ceriopora palmata6 sites
• Costazia costazi6 sites
• Cribrilaria radiata6 sites
• Escharina vulgaris6 sites
• Escharoides coccinea6 sites
• Crassimarginatella bobiesi5 sites
• Escharina dutertrei5 sites
• Escharoides megalota5 sites
• Hagiosynodos latus5 sites
• Hippopleurifera surgens5 sites
• Myriapora truncata5 sites
• Therenia montenati5 sites
• Turbicellepora coronopus5 sites
• Calpensia nobilis4 sites
• Chaperia annulus4 sites
• Colletosia radiata4 sites
• Cryptosula pallasiana4 sites
• Hippoporina longidens4 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Chorizopora, 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.

• Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)Pouyet, 2000 · Revista Española de Paleontología · journal article6
• Bryozoans and serpuloideans in skeletobiont communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily: spatial utilisation and competitive interactionsRosso and Sanfilippo, 2005 · Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Ferrara Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica · journal article3
• Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) froma volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)Ávila et al., 2015 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article1
• Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeographyBerning et al., 2005 · Bryozoan Studies 2004 · book chapter1
• Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, GreeceSpjeldnaes and Moissette, 1997 · Cool-Water carbonates · book chapter1
• Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]Saint Martin, 1990 · Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, C · serial monograph1

Each of the 13 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.

What may have been alongside itChorizoporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hincks 1879