Gephuropora varia
No picture of Gephuropora varia 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 Gephuropora varia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GephuroporaPBDB
- 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 most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gephuropora varia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gephuropora varia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gephuropora varia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Gephuropora varia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Catenipora1 site
- Cystiphyllum1 site
- Cystiphyllum (Cystiphyllum) siluriense1 site
- Dentilasma1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Mesofavosites1 site
- Mesosolenia1 site
- Miculiella1 site
- Neocystiphyllum1 site
- Paleofavosites1 site
- Ptychophyllum1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
- Syringopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gephuropora varia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]2
- Khayznikova, 19891
Each of the 3 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 Gephuropora varia 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 Gephuropora varia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gephuropora varia 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 itGephuropora through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Volkova et al. 1978