Heteroporella

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

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 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 19 of 26 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–211 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 6 occurrences207–202 Mya — about 9 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences233.6 Mya106.3 Mya240 Mya98 Mya

26 occurrences of Heteroporella on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

26 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

5 formations

Panormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EUpper Rhaetian Reef Limestone — 47.63°N, 11.80°E

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The named rock units Heteroporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heteroporella and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Heteroporella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

341 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Heteroporella, 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

13 references

Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is 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 Heteroporella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Heteroporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heteroporella 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 itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Praturlon 1966