Microporella ciliata

Microporella ciliata

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
MicroporellaPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 40 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences15.9 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Microporella ciliata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

40 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

12 formations

Acredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°ERapanui — 39.86°S, 174.77°EMt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°ENiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°W

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The named rock units Microporella ciliata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microporella ciliata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Microporella ciliata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Microporella ciliata, 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

17 references

Each of the 40 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. 5 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 ciliata

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

No 3D scan of Microporella ciliata 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 itMicroporella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1766)