Fossopora
No picture of Fossopora 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 Fossopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TheciidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 399.5 Mya.
7 occurrences of Fossopora 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Fossopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fossopora and its relatives
DevonianWhere Fossopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Coenites4 sites
- Acanthophyllum3 sites
- Disphyllum3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Favosites forbesi3 sites
- Favosites goldfussi3 sites
- Heliolites3 sites
- Pseudamplexus3 sites
- Squameofavosites squamuliferus3 sites
- Thamnophyllum3 sites
- Uncinulus3 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Plectostroma intertextum2 sites
- Stromatopora2 sites
- Syringaxon2 sites
- Thamnopora2 sites
- Tryplasma2 sites
- Actinostroma1 site
- Amphipora ramosa1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Fossopora, 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 palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria4
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19882
- Geology of Ordovician to Pennsylvanian rocks, M'Clintock Inlet, north coast of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Fossopora 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 Fossopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fossopora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTheciidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etheridge 1903