Gyroporella

Gyroporella is an extinct genus of green algae, placed either in the family Dasycladaceae or the family Triploporellaceae.

Gyroporella

Hectonichus · 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
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 101 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 142 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 126 of 142 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 142 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 142 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 9 of 142 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 142 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences306–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence298–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 2 occurrences290–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–282 Mya — about 3 occurrences282–278 Mya — about 8 occurrences278–274 Mya — about 7 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 13 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 14 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 14 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 58 occurrences250–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences239–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–231 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences231–227 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences227–223 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences223–219 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences219–215 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences215–211 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences307 Mya205.7 Mya317 Mya199 Mya

142 occurrences of Gyroporella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

142 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

21 formations

Changxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 29.50°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 33.08°N, 106.91°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EBellerophon — 46.56°N, 11.73°EBellerophon — 46.29°N, 11.57°EDelaware Mountain — 31.23°N, 104.51°WAlcsutdoboz Limestone — 47.42°N, 18.62°EDinnyes Dolomite — 47.42°N, 18.62°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EOrtnek — 45.78°N, 14.67°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EKhao Khad — 14.67°N, 100.83°ERio Asunción — 30.68°N, 112.59°WRecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°ENayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ELatemar Limestone — 46.43°N, 11.85°EBellerophon Limestone — 46.57°N, 11.63°EWardak — 34.09°N, 68.49°EGnishik — 38.97°N, 45.53°EGnishik — 39.83°N, 45.06°EKorosica — 46.44°N, 14.26°ELower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone — 46.59°N, 13.17°ESan Hipólito — 26.99°N, 113.99°W

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The named rock units Gyroporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gyroporella and its relatives

Permian

Where Gyroporella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

653 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Gyroporella, 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

38 references

Each of the 142 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. 25 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

Media content1

Picture of Gyroporella

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gümbel 1872