Clathropora

Clathropora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtilodictyidaePBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 22 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 13 of 22 occurrencesSilurian462–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–431 Mya — about 4 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.1 Mya432.9 Mya461.8 Mya421.9 Mya

22 occurrences of Clathropora 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

22 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

11 formations

Rochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WHerkimer — 43.12°N, 75.60°WHerkimer — 43.06°N, 75.40°WUllerntangen — 60.00°N, 10.00°ERochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WRochester — 43.19°N, 77.56°WJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°WGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WIrondequoit — 43.12°N, 79.07°WKermeur — 47.79°N, 3.80°WKirkland — 43.04°N, 75.36°WTommarp — 60.92°N, 15.10°EFombuena — 41.15°N, 1.20°W

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The named rock units Clathropora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clathropora and its relatives

Silurian

Where Clathropora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

320 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Clathropora, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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 Clathropora

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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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What may have been alongside itPtilodictyidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.