Micropora

Micropora is a genus of bryozoans in the family Microporidae. Colonies are always encrusting.

Micropora

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
MicroporidaePBDB
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 467 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 774 ka.

Ordovician — about 38 of 80 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 80 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 80 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 80 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 80 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 80 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 80 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 80 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 80 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 80 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 80 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 80 occurrences481–465 Mya — about 3 occurrences465–449 Mya — about 33 occurrences449–433 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences469.1 Mya1.8 Mya481 Mya0 Mya

80 occurrences of Micropora on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

80 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

40 formations

Holston — 35.92°N, 83.97°WHolston — 35.87°N, 84.07°WHolston — 36.33°N, 83.17°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDecorah Shale — 44.95°N, 93.10°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.26°WMarianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WRed Bluff — 31.54°N, 87.52°WRed Bluff — 31.15°N, 87.15°WKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.42°EVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EVasalemma — 59.30°N, 24.65°ELenoir — 35.96°N, 83.92°WSunblood — 62.00°N, 126.00°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°ERidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°ECrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WSunblood, Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine & Sunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°W

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The named rock units Micropora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Micropora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Micropora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,794 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Micropora, 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

37 references

Each of the 80 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Micropora

Credit
Alison M. Fortunato
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1848