Phaenopora

Phaenopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtilodictyidaePBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 39 of 128 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 89 of 128 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 128 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–456 Mya — about 4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 4 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 9 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 29 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 13 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 8 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 8 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 8 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453.9 Mya422.7 Mya459 Mya418.8 Mya

128 occurrences of Phaenopora on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

128 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

25 formations

Sodus — 43.20°N, 77.62°WSodus — 43.22°N, 77.34°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSodus — 43.29°N, 76.74°WSodus — 43.28°N, 76.60°WSodus — 43.15°N, 75.56°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WFurnaceville — 43.17°N, 77.63°WFurnaceville — 43.23°N, 77.33°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.16°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.06°WFurnaceville — 43.25°N, 77.02°WFurnaceville — 43.29°N, 76.74°WFurnaceville — 43.31°N, 76.58°WReynales — 43.20°N, 77.62°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WReynales — 43.18°N, 78.75°WPin — 32.02°N, 78.05°EBecscie — 47.32°N, 70.57°WBecscie — 49.70°N, 63.99°WBecscie — 49.47°N, 63.62°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WWolcott — 43.23°N, 76.98°WWolcott — 43.25°N, 76.87°WWolcott — 43.24°N, 76.80°WWolcott — 43.14°N, 75.58°WBear Creek — 43.29°N, 76.74°WBear Creek — 43.31°N, 76.58°WBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.85°N, 138.15°EMoyerokan — 67.31°N, 103.83°EMangazea — 63.00°N, 92.00°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.49°EMangazea — 62.30°N, 92.12°EOjlemyr cherts — 57.82°N, 18.90°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.49°EManitoulin — 45.83°N, 82.33°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WSodus Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EZagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°EDayanmen — 31.48°N, 108.18°EErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°ELower Visby — 57.85°N, 18.58°EOneida — 43.15°N, 75.57°WFuruberget — 60.80°N, 11.02°E

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The named rock units Phaenopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phaenopora and its relatives

Silurian

Where Phaenopora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

595 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Phaenopora, 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

24 references

Each of the 128 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. 12 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 Phaenopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1851