Myriapora truncata

Myriapora truncata, also known by its common name false coral is a species from the genus Myriapora. The species was originally described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766.

Myriapora truncata

Andra Waagmeester · 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
MyriaporaPBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.1–7.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.4–5.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23.04 Mya5.333 Mya27.8 Mya2.1 Mya

19 occurrences of Myriapora truncata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

19 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

1 formation

Niebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°W

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The named rock units Myriapora truncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myriapora truncata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Myriapora truncata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Myriapora truncata, 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

6 references

Each of the 19 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. 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 Myriapora truncata

Credit
Andra Waagmeester
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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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What may have been alongside itMyriapora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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