Diamesopora

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinoporidaePBDB
- 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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Diamesopora 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group3
- Lockport Formation1
- Rochester Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Diamesopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diamesopora and its relatives
SilurianWhere Diamesopora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Enterolasma5 sites
- Arctinurus4 sites
- Chasmatopora4 sites
- Dalmanella4 sites
- Dalmanites4 sites
- Mesotrypa4 sites
- Pterinea4 sites
- Schuchertella4 sites
- Acanthoclema3 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Beyrichia3 sites
- Camarotoechia neglecta3 sites
- Clathropora3 sites
- Coeloclema3 sites
- Cytherina spinosa3 sites
- Dicoelosia3 sites
- Dictyonema3 sites
- Dizygopleura3 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus3 sites
- Fenestella3 sites
- Fistulipora3 sites
- Homalonotus3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Diamesopora, 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
3 references- The Clinton of Western and Central New York3
- Uppermost Clinton (Middle Silurian) stratigraphy and petrology, east-central New York1
- Silurian stratigraphy and palæontology of the Niagara escarpment in Ontario1
Each of the 5 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 Diamesopora
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itRhinoporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.