Heteropora

Heteropora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteroporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 58 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 58 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 58 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 58 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 58 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 36 of 58 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 58 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 58 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 58 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 58 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 58 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–129 Mya — about 9 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 14 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 11 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences201.4 Mya129 ka242 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Heteropora on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

58 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

22 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.10°N, 6.82°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.44°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.95°N, 6.31°EPierre jaune — 45.77°N, 5.68°EPierre jaune — 46.12°N, 5.92°EPierre jaune — 46.02°N, 5.95°EGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°EUrgonien jaune — 46.85°N, 6.33°EUrgonien jaune — 46.77°N, 6.23°EMarnes de Fontaine-Graillere — 44.75°N, 5.52°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.12°N, 5.37°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.20°N, 5.48°EMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WMarnes à bryozoaires — 47.80°N, 3.62°ECalcaire à Spatangues — 48.18°N, 4.47°EVions — 46.02°N, 5.95°EBarre a Orbitolines — 44.57°N, 5.17°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EUrgonien jaune — 46.70°N, 6.38°ERipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WAquia — 40.35°N, 74.25°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WLautaro — 29.25°S, 70.27°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ESan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Heteropora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heteropora and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Heteropora, 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

26 references

Each of the 58 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. 14 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 Heteropora

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Heteropora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Blainville 1830