Polypora mexicana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolyporaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
4 occurrences of Polypora mexicana on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
4 occurrences- Permian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Polypora mexicana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polypora mexicana and its relatives
PermianWhere Polypora mexicana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Acanthocladia guadalupensis4 sites
- Cladopora spinulata2 sites
- Cyclacantharia kingorum2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Fistulipora grandis guadalupensis2 sites
- Girtypora ocellata2 sites
- Girtypora terminalis2 sites
- Hustedia bipartita2 sites
- Leioclema shumardi2 sites
- Lindstroemia permiana2 sites
- Mackinneyella robustiformis2 sites
- Penniretepora2 sites
- Polypora hirsuta2 sites
- Protoretepora ampla2 sites
- Reticulariina laxa2 sites
- Septopora2 sites
- Septopora orientalis2 sites
- Septopora pinnata2 sites
- Stenopora2 sites
- Timanodictya2 sites
- Acanthocladia1 site
- Aequalicosta shumardi1 site
- Anteridocus swallovianus1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Polypora mexicana, 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 referencesEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Polypora mexicana 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 Polypora mexicana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polypora mexicana 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 itPolypora through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Prout 1858