Orthopora

Orthopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhabdomesidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 144 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 20 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 20 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 12 of 20 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 20 occurrencesPermian449–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–431 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences431–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–413 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences413–407 Mya — about 7 occurrences407–401 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences401–395 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences395–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–289 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences289–283 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences283–277 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443.1 Mya298.9 Mya449 Mya271 Mya

20 occurrences of Orthopora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

20 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

Lebanza — 42.98°N, 4.58°WSaal — 22.44°N, 59.77°ESteinsfjorden — 60.00°N, 10.29°ESteinsfjorden — 60.08°N, 10.30°ETonoloway Limestone — 39.57°N, 76.84°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°EKantinovo — 52.00°N, 24.00°EHeitai — 45.55°N, 131.95°EArmorique — 48.33°N, 4.45°WPraha — 49.90°N, 14.07°ESanta Lucia — 42.93°N, 5.87°WEsla — 42.88°N, 5.13°WSkaly — 50.88°N, 21.03°E

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The named rock units Orthopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthopora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Orthopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Orthopora, 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

11 references

Each of the 20 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 Orthopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orthopora 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 itRhabdomesidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1886