Plasmopora

Plasmopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlasmoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 78 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 55 of 78 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 6 of 78 occurrencesDevonian458–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 5 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 12 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 7 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 7 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 6 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–416 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–412 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453.8 Mya413.02 Mya458 Mya398 Mya

78 occurrences of Plasmopora 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

78 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

39 formations

La Vieille — 47.73°N, 65.72°WLa Vieille — 46.92°N, 66.00°WLa Vieille — 48.83°N, 64.48°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.80°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 56.50°N, 94.25°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.67°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WLimestone Point — 47.73°N, 65.72°WLimestone Point — 46.92°N, 66.00°WUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.82°N, 18.48°EGazelle — 41.51°N, 122.59°WGazelle — 41.43°N, 122.77°WAnse a Pierre-Loiselle — 48.83°N, 64.48°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EBoola Beds — 38.15°S, 146.47°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ELerberget Marlstone — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESurprise Creek — 58.00°N, 95.00°WSurprise Creek — 56.59°N, 93.87°WTernava Suite — 48.87°N, 26.53°ETernava Suite — 48.65°N, 26.80°EAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°ELaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°ELilla Karlso Limestone — 57.63°N, 18.30°E

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The named rock units Plasmopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plasmopora and its relatives

Silurian

Where Plasmopora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

980 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Plasmopora, 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

25 references

Each of the 78 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. 13 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 Plasmopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-SA
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849