Porostromata

No picture of Porostromata 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 Porostromata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyanobacteriaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 214 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 10 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 24 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous364–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–347 Mya — about 2 occurrences347–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–331 Mya — about 3 occurrences331–323 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–315 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences315–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–299 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–137 Mya — about 4 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences346.7 Mya132.6 Mya364 Mya121 Mya

24 occurrences of Porostromata 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

24 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

13 formations

Pitkin — 35.93°N, 94.02°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 92.53°WPlassen — 47.57°N, 13.60°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°ECalcari — 39.80°N, 16.12°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.07°EVeterlin — 48.50°N, 17.33°EKorallenoolith — 52.18°N, 9.38°EHunts Bay Oolite — 51.55°N, 4.20°WNayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ELlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EYatsuji — 33.37°N, 132.63°ESan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.55°WLives — 50.57°N, 5.42°EInaltı — 41.64°N, 34.86°E

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The named rock units Porostromata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Porostromata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Porostromata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Porostromata, 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

20 references

Each of the 24 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. 8 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

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No picture of Porostromata 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 Porostromata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Porostromata 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCyanobacteria through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1927