Gyroporella bellerophontis

No picture of Gyroporella bellerophontis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Gyroporella bellerophontis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GyroporellaPBDB
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 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 83 of 84 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 84 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 84 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 7 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 10 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 60 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283.3 Mya205.7 Mya292 Mya200 Mya

84 occurrences of Gyroporella bellerophontis 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

84 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

6 formations

Changxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 29.50°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 33.08°N, 106.91°EBellerophon — 46.56°N, 11.73°EBellerophon — 46.29°N, 11.57°EAlcsutdoboz Limestone — 47.42°N, 18.62°EDinnyes Dolomite — 47.42°N, 18.62°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EBellerophon Limestone — 46.57°N, 11.63°E

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The named rock units Gyroporella bellerophontis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gyroporella bellerophontis and its relatives

Permian

Where Gyroporella bellerophontis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Gyroporella bellerophontis, 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

18 references

Each of the 84 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Gyroporella bellerophontis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Gyroporella bellerophontis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gyroporella bellerophontis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

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What may have been alongside itGyroporella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rothpletz 1894)