Pyripora

Pyripora is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Electridae.

Pyripora

Daniel J. Drew · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElectridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEocene87–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83.6 Mya41.03 Mya86.7 Mya36.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Pyripora on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

3 formations

Barton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WOzan — 33.83°N, 94.48°WBrownstown — 33.83°N, 94.48°W

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The named rock units Pyripora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pyripora and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pyripora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pyripora, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pyripora

Credit
Daniel J. Drew
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itElectridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1852