Phidoloporidae

Phidoloporidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomatida. The colonies of many genera grow in an upright, reticulate branching manner, which gave rise to one colloquial name for this group as 'lace corals'. Zooids generally open on one side of the branches.

Phidoloporidae

RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2015 · CC BY 4.0 · 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
CelleporoideaPBDB
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 315 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 262 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 262 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 262 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 262 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 262 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 262 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 262 occurrencesOligocene — about 22 of 262 occurrencesMiocene — about 149 of 262 occurrencesPliocene — about 36 of 262 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 262 occurrences337–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–314 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences303–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–281 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences135–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–34 Mya — about 16 occurrences34–22 Mya — about 23 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 113 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 101 occurrences315.2 Mya11.7 ka337 Mya0 Mya

262 occurrences of Phidoloporidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

262 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

36 formations

Cayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WFutuna Limestone — 18.22°S, 178.78°EFutuna Limestone — 18.45°S, 178.48°EKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EMarianna Limestone — 31.52°N, 87.33°WMarianna Limestone — 31.07°N, 87.10°WMarianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EMt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°ENiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WSiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.19°N, 82.14°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WCopacabana — 16.02°S, 69.20°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WCrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WLoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WRed Bluff — 31.63°N, 88.31°WByram Marl — 31.69°N, 88.66°W

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The named rock units Phidoloporidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 169 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phidoloporidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phidoloporidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,412 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Phidoloporidae, 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

58 references

Each of the 262 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. 46 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 Phidoloporidae

Credit
RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie HENNION - 2015
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phidoloporidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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. Gabb and Horn 1862