Gigantopora

Gigantopora is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Gigantoporidae.

Gigantopora

Peter Southwood · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 23 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya1.8 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Gigantopora 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

23 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

Crystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.04°WWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°EGlenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°E

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The named rock units Gigantopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gigantopora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gigantopora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

367 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Gigantopora, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 Gigantopora

Credit
Peter Southwood
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gigantopora 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itGigantoporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ridley 1881