Protoretepora

Protoretepora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthocladiidaePBDB
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 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 53 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 48 of 53 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 53 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence296–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 5 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 4 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 4 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 3 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 4 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 5 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 7 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 4 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences323.4 Mya254.14 Mya349 Mya250 Mya

53 occurrences of Protoretepora 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

53 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

32 formations

Road Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°WRoad Canyon — 30.34°N, 103.25°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WMuree — 32.58°S, 151.73°EMuree — 32.76°S, 151.76°EMuree — 32.60°S, 151.32°ESkinner Ranch — 30.20°N, 103.43°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.88°WZewan — 34.04°N, 74.91°EZewan — 33.99°N, 75.03°EHajier — 38.17°N, 100.23°EBlenheim — 20.61°S, 147.85°EGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WFlowers — 40.81°S, 172.71°EOmi Limestone — 36.98°N, 137.77°EButtle Lake — 49.70°N, 125.65°WAgglomeratic Slate — 34.10°N, 74.88°EPort Keats — 14.43°S, 129.72°ECattle Creek — 24.85°S, 148.32°ENoonkanbah — 18.88°S, 125.96°EDaheshen — 43.35°N, 126.78°EJiaoga — 29.55°N, 98.73°EXiala — 31.05°N, 88.80°EKapp Starostin — 78.59°N, 14.94°ETalchir — 23.20°N, 82.21°EBa'id — 23.38°N, 57.81°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°EBranxton — 32.90°S, 151.47°E

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The named rock units Protoretepora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protoretepora and its relatives

Permian

Where Protoretepora and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

587 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Protoretepora, 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

35 references

Each of the 53 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. 23 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 Protoretepora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Protoretepora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.