Ptylopora

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

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 133 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 11 of 33 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 17 of 33 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 33 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 33 occurrences414–408 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences408–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences360–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–349 Mya — about 2 occurrences349–343 Mya — about 4 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 3 occurrences338–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–327 Mya — about 1 occurrence327–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences311–305 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences305–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–284 Mya — about 2 occurrences284–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–267 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences267–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences393.47 Mya259.857 Mya414 Mya251 Mya

33 occurrences of Ptylopora 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

33 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

19 formations

Moniello — 43.58°N, 6.00°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WShale Hill — 39.36°N, 93.50°WDennis — 37.70°N, 95.19°WStanton — 41.01°N, 96.23°WHumbug — 40.60°N, 112.47°WDeseret Limestone — 40.23°N, 111.65°WBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EHajier — 38.17°N, 100.23°EBuffel — 25.37°S, 150.29°EOxtrack — 25.29°S, 150.27°ENordenskioldbreen — 78.39°N, 17.07°ESouth Curra — 26.10°S, 152.57°EEsla — 42.88°N, 5.13°WBranch Creek — 25.05°S, 151.38°EAhbach — 50.35°N, 6.77°E

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The named rock units Ptylopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptylopora and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Ptylopora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

477 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Ptylopora, 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

19 references

Each of the 33 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. 7 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Ptylopora 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 itAcanthocladiidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1844