Ferestromatopora

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FerestromatoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 379 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 41 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 40 of 41 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 6 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 6 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 5 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 4 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 6 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 6 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 3 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 1 occurrence426.7 Mya379 Mya434 Mya371 Mya

41 occurrences of Ferestromatopora 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

41 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

15 formations

Kowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EKowala — 50.87°N, 20.48°EKowala — 50.63°N, 21.37°ELaoyefen — 24.45°N, 108.30°ETungkangling — 25.30°N, 107.40°ECairn — 53.18°N, 118.28°WCairn — 51.90°N, 115.93°WBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°ESwan Hills — 54.87°N, 115.75°WMikkwa — 58.39°N, 114.83°WLockport — 43.15°N, 77.62°WDawson Bay — 51.65°N, 99.81°WFerques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EQiziqiao — 27.40°N, 111.27°ETwin Falls — 60.45°N, 116.33°WBlue Fiord — 77.33°N, 86.77°W"Ramparts" — 66.17°N, 127.40°WLeduc — 53.95°N, 113.10°W

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

Ferestromatopora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ferestromatopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

237 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ferestromatopora, 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

15 references

Each of the 41 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. 3 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

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

No 3D scan of Ferestromatopora was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itFerestromatoporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yavorsky 1955