Phractopora
No picture of Phractopora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phractopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HexagonellidaePBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Phractopora on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
12 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Phractopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phractopora and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Phractopora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
186 taxa- Cheilotrypa12 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis11 sites
- Barycrinus11 sites
- Cyathocrinites11 sites
- Fenestella11 sites
- Fistulipora11 sites
- Cladochonus beecheri10 sites
- Cleiothyridina10 sites
- Cystodictya10 sites
- Penniretepora10 sites
- Platyceras10 sites
- Platycrinites10 sites
- Rhombopora10 sites
- Thamniscus10 sites
- Cladochonus9 sites
- Composita globosa9 sites
- Echinoidea9 sites
- Halysiocrinus9 sites
- Inadunata9 sites
- Punctospirifer9 sites
- Saffordotaxis9 sites
- Synbathocrinus9 sites
- Thuramminoides9 sites
- Tolypammina9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Phractopora, 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
2 references- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)10
- Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippi) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky2
Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Phractopora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phractopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phractopora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHexagonellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.