Frondipora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FrondiporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 130 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
6 occurrences of Frondipora on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 occurrences- Early Cretaceous33%
- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene17%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Frondipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Frondipora and its relatives
MioceneWhere Frondipora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
310 taxa- Cellaria4 sites
- Crisia4 sites
- Plagioecia4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Annectocyma3 sites
- Celleporina3 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata3 sites
- Echinoidea3 sites
- Entalophoroecia3 sites
- Escharina dutertrei3 sites
- Lichenopora3 sites
- Microporella ciliata3 sites
- Onychocella angulosa3 sites
- Serpulidae3 sites
- Smittina cervicornis3 sites
- Ybselosoecia3 sites
- Acrosalenia2 sites
- Aporrhais2 sites
- Arca2 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Bactridium ellipticum2 sites
- Bairdoppilata2 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Frondipora, 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- Bryozoaires des milieux récifaux miocénes du sillon sud-rifain au Maroc2
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois2
- A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology1
- Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, Greece1
Each of the 6 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 content1
Picture of Frondipora
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFrondiporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1807