Polypora

Searched as Pustulopora. The Paleobiology Database treats Polypora as the accepted name.

Polypora

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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 437 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 775 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 775 occurrencesDevonian — about 30 of 775 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 203 of 775 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 510 of 775 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 775 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 775 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 775 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 775 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 775 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 775 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 775 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 775 occurrencesPaleocene — about 12 of 775 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 775 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 775 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 775 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 775 occurrences460–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–399 Mya — about 2 occurrences399–384 Mya — about 23 occurrences384–368 Mya — about 5 occurrences368–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–338 Mya — about 30 occurrences338–323 Mya — about 71 occurrences323–307 Mya — about 31 occurrences307–292 Mya — about 127 occurrences292–277 Mya — about 162 occurrences277–262 Mya — about 195 occurrences262–247 Mya — about 95 occurrences94–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–64 Mya — about 14 occurrences64–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence450.2 Mya12.8 Mya460 Mya3 Mya

775 occurrences of Polypora 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

775 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

205 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WKazan — 57.54°N, 49.29°EKazan — 64.55°N, 43.98°EKazan — 56.67°N, 49.08°EKazan — 66.05°N, 43.50°EKazan — 57.98°N, 49.11°EKazan — 57.50°N, 49.00°EKazan — 57.42°N, 48.90°EKazan — 57.47°N, 49.08°EKazan — 64.40°N, 44.25°EKazan — 55.78°N, 48.95°EKazan — 57.60°N, 49.13°EKazan — 66.08°N, 43.28°EKazan — 57.60°N, 49.00°EKazan — 65.50°N, 45.50°EKazan — 53.42°N, 49.49°EWreford — 39.06°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.33°N, 96.53°WWreford — 38.87°N, 96.23°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.75°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.57°WWreford — 38.69°N, 96.49°WWreford — 38.97°N, 96.86°WWreford — 38.66°N, 96.27°WWreford — 37.31°N, 96.72°WWreford — 37.81°N, 96.54°WWreford — 38.04°N, 96.42°WWreford — 39.84°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.23°N, 96.42°WWreford — 38.18°N, 96.47°WWinchell — 31.50°N, 98.58°WWinchell — 33.03°N, 98.07°WRoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°WRoad Canyon — 30.37°N, 103.22°WRoad Canyon — 30.34°N, 103.25°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WWargal — 33.00°N, 72.00°EWargal — 32.41°N, 72.10°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.61°N, 71.76°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°EWargal — 32.53°N, 71.32°EWargal — 32.24°N, 71.15°EWargal — 32.53°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.42°N, 71.27°EWargal — 32.55°N, 72.40°ECopacabana — 19.12°S, 64.70°WCopacabana — 16.32°S, 68.67°WCopacabana — 15.78°S, 69.00°WCopacabana — 16.10°S, 69.07°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WSkinner Ranch — 30.20°N, 103.43°WPottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 38.94°N, 95.10°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.79°N, 85.82°WSalem Limestone — 37.33°N, 85.50°WSalem Limestone — 37.18°N, 85.32°WSalem Limestone — 37.55°N, 85.70°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WSalem Limestone — 38.03°N, 86.03°WGreat Bear Cape — 77.36°N, 87.61°WGreat Bear Cape — 77.60°N, 86.35°WGreat Bear Cape — 81.30°N, 92.35°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.17°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.12°N, 86.57°WGlen Dean Limestone — 38.37°N, 86.62°WAbadeh — 30.91°N, 53.22°EKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EBranxton — 32.66°S, 151.34°EBranxton — 32.97°S, 151.30°EBranxton — 32.90°S, 151.46°EChili — 33.92°N, 56.47°EChili — 33.27°N, 56.16°EStanton — 41.01°N, 96.23°WStanton — 37.52°N, 95.68°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 76.92°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WChhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.25°N, 71.14°EChhidru — 32.53°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.88°N, 71.57°EToroweap — 36.54°N, 114.62°WToroweap — 35.99°N, 115.30°WToroweap — 36.42°N, 114.58°WCopacabana — 13.54°S, 72.88°WWyandotte — 38.63°N, 94.69°WWyandotte — 39.11°N, 94.81°WMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EMaokou — 29.95°N, 109.50°EMaokou — 27.51°N, 114.25°EMaokou — 30.15°N, 114.29°E

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The named rock units Polypora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 181 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 110 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polypora and its relatives

Permian

Where Polypora and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,008 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 583 sites for Polypora, and this reads 240 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

179 references

Each of the 775 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. 167 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 Polypora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Termier and Termier 1971