Diplopora

Diplopora is an extinct genus of marine dasycladacean algae in the family Diploporaceae.

Diplopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiploporaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 367 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 91 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 91 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 91 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 17 of 91 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 30 of 91 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 39 of 91 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 91 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 91 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 91 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 91 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 91 occurrences438–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–412 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences412–398 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences372–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–332 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences332–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–266 Mya — about 6 occurrences266–253 Mya — about 9 occurrences253–239 Mya — about 27 occurrences239–226 Mya — about 7 occurrences226–213 Mya — about 6 occurrences213–200 Mya — about 29 occurrences173–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426.7 Mya59.24 Mya438 Mya40 Mya

91 occurrences of Diplopora on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

91 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

30 formations

Panormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°ENayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ENayband — 32.33°N, 57.45°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°ERecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°ESchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°EGnishik — 39.83°N, 45.06°EGnishik — 39.95°N, 44.94°EDelaware Mountain — 31.23°N, 104.51°WMuschelkalk — 50.53°N, 18.28°ETrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WShaimak — 37.50°N, 74.50°ELower Diplopora Limestone — 46.20°N, 15.23°EShotori Dolomite — 32.50°N, 57.33°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WSchlern — 46.47°N, 13.33°ELatemar Limestone — 46.43°N, 11.85°EUpper Rhaetian Reef Limestone — 47.63°N, 11.80°EEros Limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°ENehou — 49.42°N, 1.82°WBleskovy pramen — 48.65°N, 20.67°ESaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.16°W

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The named rock units Diplopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplopora and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

960 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Diplopora, 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

49 references

Each of the 91 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. 37 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 Diplopora

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplopora 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiploporaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schafhaeutl 1863