Megaporus

No picture of Megaporus was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Megaporus itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megaporus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntactiniidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254.64 Mya251.4 Mya

8 occurrences of Megaporus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

8 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

2 formations

Dalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°EHashikadani — 35.68°N, 136.58°E

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The named rock units Megaporus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Megaporus and its relatives

Permian

Where Megaporus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Megaporus, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Megaporus was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Megaporus itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megaporus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itEntactiniidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feng 2006