Hippoporina incomposita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HippoporinaPBDB
- 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 most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Hippoporina incomposita on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group2
- Glenaulin clay Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Hippoporina incomposita 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.
Hippoporina incomposita and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hippoporina incomposita and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Biflustra regularis4 sites
- Cellaria contigua4 sites
- Foveolaria thomasi4 sites
- Ogiva concamerata4 sites
- Palmicellaria quadrifrons4 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis3 sites
- Bimicroporella watersi3 sites
- Cellaria bicornis3 sites
- Crateropora patula3 sites
- Escharella elongata3 sites
- Escharoides duplicata3 sites
- Glenelgia crawfordensis3 sites
- Hincksina geminata3 sites
- Palmicellaria ornata3 sites
- Porina gracilis3 sites
- Smittinella tatei3 sites
- Trigonopora vermicularis3 sites
- Vincularia gigantea3 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica2 sites
- Arachnopusia liversidgei2 sites
- Aspidostoma airense2 sites
- Biflustra delta2 sites
- Cellaria dennanti2 sites
- Cellaria rigida2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hippoporina incomposita, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hippoporina incomposita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hippoporina incomposita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hippoporina incomposita 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 itHippoporina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1958