Helioporidae

Heliopora is a genus of cnidarians in the family Helioporidae. The genus consists of reef building corals, and is ancient and highly conserved. The species Heliopora coerulea is also known as "blue coral".

Helioporidae

User:Haplochromis · Public Domain · 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
HelioporaceaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Helioporacea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Helioporacea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Helioporacea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helioporacea

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 18 of 56 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 56 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 56 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 56 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 7 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya20.45 Mya128 Mya3 Mya

56 occurrences of Helioporidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

56 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

16 formations

Salcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.82°N, 141.97°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.88°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.80°N, 141.97°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WBenassal — 40.05°N, 0.15°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°ETheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°EProgo Beds — 7.65°S, 110.05°ESubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°ELuza — 49.10°N, 31.97°ESareweh — 7.75°S, 110.13°E

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The named rock units Helioporidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Helioporidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Helioporidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

669 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Helioporidae, 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

29 references

Each of the 56 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. 17 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 Helioporidae

Credit
User:Haplochromis
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Helioporidae 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 itHelioporacea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moseley 1876