Multithecopora

Multithecopora

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
MultithecoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 68 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 68 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 34 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 31 of 68 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 68 occurrences442–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences416–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–404 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences404–397 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences397–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 1 occurrence352–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–339 Mya — about 7 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 8 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 7 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 6 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 3 occurrences287–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–274 Mya — about 5 occurrences274–268 Mya — about 6 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence432.9 Mya254.14 Mya442 Mya248 Mya

68 occurrences of Multithecopora on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

68 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

30 formations

Treskelodden Beds — 77.00°N, 16.25°ETreskelodden Beds — 77.03°N, 16.22°ETreskelodden Beds — 77.05°N, 16.15°EQixia — 31.63°N, 117.83°EQixia — 30.95°N, 117.80°EQixia — 30.03°N, 109.65°EAmsden — 43.00°N, 107.00°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WBa'id — 23.54°N, 58.53°EIchinotani — 36.00°N, 137.00°EFukuji — 36.22°N, 137.53°EGundara — 38.70°N, 70.65°EGundara — 38.45°N, 70.48°EWhite Pine Shale — 39.25°N, 114.93°WInskip — 40.58°N, 117.96°WBanner — 41.89°N, 115.79°WAl Jil — 23.13°N, 58.33°ENingqiang — 33.05°N, 106.65°EMeledis — 46.58°N, 13.12°EWordiekammen Limestone — 78.02°N, 13.90°EFort Scott — 37.42°N, 94.93°WLuton — 29.53°S, 150.22°ECuera Limestone — 43.45°N, 4.92°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 92.53°WMcGregor Creek — 50.67°N, 120.07°WZenbutsuji-dani — 34.95°N, 133.13°E"Amushan" — 44.35°N, 117.65°EDashizhai — 45.30°N, 120.46°EChangxing — 25.40°N, 112.95°EWujiaping — 33.07°N, 106.93°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Multithecopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Multithecopora and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Multithecopora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Multithecopora, 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

39 references

Each of the 68 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. 27 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 Multithecopora

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

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMultithecoporidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yoh 1927