Reteporella

Reteporella is a genus of bryozoans in the family Phidoloporidae.

Reteporella

Parent Géry · Public Domain · 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
PhidoloporidaePBDB
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 313 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 114 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 114 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 114 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 114 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 114 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 114 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 114 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 114 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 114 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 114 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 114 occurrencesOligocene — about 20 of 114 occurrencesMiocene — about 65 of 114 occurrencesPliocene — about 10 of 114 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 114 occurrences337–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–314 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences303–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–281 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences135–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–22 Mya — about 20 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 51 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences315.2 Mya1.8 Mya337 Mya0 Mya

114 occurrences of Reteporella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

114 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

22 formations

Futuna Limestone — 18.22°S, 178.78°EFutuna Limestone — 18.45°S, 178.48°EMarianna Limestone — 31.52°N, 87.33°WMarianna Limestone — 31.07°N, 87.10°WMarianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ECrystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.19°N, 82.14°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°EPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WCopacabana — 16.02°S, 69.20°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°EMt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°EKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°ECrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WLoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°ERed Bluff — 31.63°N, 88.31°WByram Marl — 31.69°N, 88.66°WMyaring Beds — 37.77°S, 141.24°EOtotara Limestone — 45.07°S, 170.92°EManiyara Fort — 23.45°N, 68.62°EChaasra — 23.37°N, 68.82°ENiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WVic-Igualada — 41.90°N, 2.20°E

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The named rock units Reteporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reteporella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Reteporella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Reteporella, 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

37 references

Each of the 114 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. 25 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 Reteporella

Credit
Parent Géry
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Reteporella 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Busk 1884