Mammillopora

Mammillopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HolcospongiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Calcarea

Time the record covers

At least 140 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous263–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 6 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence254.14 Mya113.2 Mya263 Mya107 Mya

15 occurrences of Mammillopora on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

15 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

Birdlip Limestone — 51.90°N, 2.08°WSüntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°ECaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WMural — 31.27°N, 109.67°WMural Limestone — 31.38°N, 109.75°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°W

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The named rock units Mammillopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mammillopora and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Mammillopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

337 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Mammillopora, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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 Mammillopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mammillopora 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 itHolcospongiinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1825