Microporella

Microporella is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Microporellidae.

Microporella

Phil Bock · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
MicroporellidaePBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 90 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 90 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 90 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 90 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 90 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

90 occurrences of Microporella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

90 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

19 formations

Timms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WNiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WMt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°EKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°ESanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WMulege — 27.07°N, 111.97°WWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°ERapanui — 39.86°S, 174.77°ELomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°W

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The named rock units Microporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microporella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Microporella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,642 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Microporella, 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

33 references

Each of the 90 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. 21 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 content1

Picture of Microporella

Credit
Phil Bock
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Microporella 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.

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. Hincks 1877