Hippoporella gorgonensis

Hippoporella gorgonensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HippoporellaPBDB
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 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 14 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Hippoporella gorgonensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

14 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

7 formations

Cayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Hippoporella gorgonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hippoporella gorgonensis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Hippoporella gorgonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

786 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Hippoporella gorgonensis, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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 Hippoporella gorgonensis

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Hippoporella gorgonensis 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHippoporella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hastings 1930