Diploporita

Diploporita is an extinct group of blastozoans that ranged from the Ordovician to the Devonian. These echinoderms are identified by a specialized respiratory structure, called diplopores. Diplopores are a double pore system that sit within a depression on a single thecal (body) plate; each plate can contain numerous diplopore pairs.

No picture of Diploporita was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Diploporita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BlastozoaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 22 of 22 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 22 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461 Mya445.2 Mya469.9 Mya442.6 Mya

22 occurrences of Diploporita on record, most of them in the Ordovician. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12 formations

Navas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EUpper Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.25°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.77°N, 5.66°WLower Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 8.50°WLower Ktaoua — 31.23°N, 4.53°WKalvsjø — 60.31°N, 10.58°EBancos Mixtos — 39.00°N, 4.00°WLashkarak — 36.30°N, 51.02°ESolvang — 59.84°N, 10.54°EUllerntangen — 60.00°N, 10.00°ETaddrist — 30.64°N, 5.11°WFombuena — 41.14°N, 1.22°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.15°E

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The named rock units Diploporita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diploporita and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Diploporita and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

372 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Diploporita, 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

13 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Diploporita was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Diploporita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Diploporita 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1854)