Hippopleurifera

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- RomancheinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 46 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 774 ka.
62 occurrences of Hippopleurifera on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
62 occurrences- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eocene43%
- Miocene45%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene2%
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
12 formations
- Crystal River Limestone Formation13
- Siamaná Formation5
- Moodys Branch Formation3
- Pachuta Marl Formation3
- Crystal River Formation2
- McBean Formation2
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The named rock units Hippopleurifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hippopleurifera and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hippopleurifera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
476 taxa- Escharella15 sites
- Onychocella angulosa15 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa15 sites
- Schizomavella15 sites
- Schizotheca fissa15 sites
- Cellaria fistulosa13 sites
- Reteporella13 sites
- Margaretta12 sites
- Microporella ciliata12 sites
- Rhynchozoon monoceros12 sites
- Cellepora11 sites
- Lunulites11 sites
- Myriapora truncata11 sites
- Pleuronea11 sites
- Smittina cervicornis11 sites
- Antropora10 sites
- Bactridium ellipticum10 sites
- Disporella10 sites
- Metrarabdotos10 sites
- Schizostomella dubia10 sites
- Smittina10 sites
- Ybselosoecia10 sites
- Celleporaria9 sites
- Colletosia radiata9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Hippopleurifera, 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
12 references- Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region23
- A bryozoan and foraminifera association from the Miocene of Podbrezice, south Moravia (Czech Republic): an environmental history16
- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)9
- Early Miocene coral reef-associated bryozoans from Colombia. Part II: “Ascophora” Cheilostomatida5
- Eocene bryozoa from the McBean Formation in Georgia2
- Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) froma volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)1
- The cheilostome bryozoan fauna from the Late Miocene of Niebla (Guadalquivir Basin, SW Spain): environmental and biogeographic implications1
- Coral microbialite environment in a Middle Miocene reef of Hungary1
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama1
- Latest Paleocene to earliest Eocene bryozoans from Chatham Island, New Zealand1
- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]1
- Barnacles of the Jacksonian (Upper Eocene) Griffins Landing Member, Dry Branch Formation in South Carolina and Georgia1
Each of the 62 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. 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 Hippopleurifera
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hippopleurifera 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 itRomancheinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1927