Oligoporella

Oligoporella

Julius von Pia (1887–1943) · Public Domain · 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
TriploporellaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 8 of 11 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259.857 Mya237 Mya265 Mya226.6 Mya

11 occurrences of Oligoporella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

11 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

4 formations

Recoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°ESteinalm — 47.40°N, 11.42°ECamorelli — 45.80°N, 10.07°ELatemar Limestone — 46.43°N, 11.85°E

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The named rock units Oligoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oligoporella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Oligoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Oligoporella, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 Oligoporella

Credit
Julius von Pia (1887–1943)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oligoporella 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itTriploporellaceae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1912