Proaulopora

Proaulopora is a Cambrian–Ordovician fossil genus of calcareous algae. It has been variously thought to belong to the green algae, red algae or cyanobacteria. It was originally established by the Russian paleontologist Aleksandr Grigoryevich Vologdin in 1937, for species known from the Lower Cambrian of the western Altai Mountains.

No picture of Proaulopora was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Proaulopora firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 25 of 34 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 9 of 34 occurrencesOrdovician541–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–534 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–528 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences528–524 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences524–521 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences521–518 Mya — about 7 occurrences518–515 Mya — about 7 occurrences515–511 Mya — about 6 occurrences511–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 4 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525.5 Mya452.8 Mya541 Mya443 Mya

34 occurrences of Proaulopora on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

34 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

14 formations

Pingliang — 34.98°N, 108.90°EPingliang — 34.69°N, 108.63°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°ESalaany Gol — 46.87°N, 95.80°EZwethau — 51.63°N, 13.55°EKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°EBayan Kol — 51.58°N, 93.60°EBeiguoshan — 34.69°N, 108.63°EOi-Muran Reef Massif — 61.07°N, 126.18°EEgiin Gol — 50.00°N, 100.00°ESukharikha — 67.22°N, 87.03°EScott Canyon — 40.62°N, 117.12°WTianheban — 30.82°N, 111.17°EBazaikha — 55.97°N, 92.92°EPestrotsvet — 50.92°N, 125.89°E

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The named rock units Proaulopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proaulopora and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Proaulopora and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Proaulopora, 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

12 references

Each of the 34 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 Proaulopora was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Proaulopora firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Proaulopora 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.

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. Vologdin 1962