Eliasopora

No picture of Eliasopora 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 Eliasopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AscodictyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bryozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Bryozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 10 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferous412–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya335.9 Mya412 Mya329 Mya

10 occurrences of Eliasopora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

10 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

4 formations

Silica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSkaly — 50.88°N, 21.03°EBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WYehlan — 22.00°N, 108.00°E

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

Eliasopora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Eliasopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Eliasopora, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Eliasopora 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 Eliasopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eliasopora 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itAscodictyidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.