Reteporellina
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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 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 774 ka.
8 occurrences of Reteporellina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
8 occurrences- Eocene25%
- Miocene25%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene38%
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
4 formations
- Moin Formation · Limon Group3
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Gatun Formation1
- Siamaná Formation1
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The named rock units Reteporellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reteporellina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Reteporellina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Bifaxaria bryani2 sites
- Bifaxaria diaphyota2 sites
- Figularia2 sites
- Spiroporina kondoi2 sites
- Tessaradoma bifax2 sites
- Tetraplaria simata2 sites
- Acropora panamensis1 site
- Acropora sp.1 site
- Alveopora tampae1 site
- Atoichos magnus n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Beania diademata1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Calpensia1 site
- Canda fossilis1 site
- Caryophylliidae1 site
- Cellaria cucullata1 site
- Chiastosella1 site
- Colpophyllia willoughbiensis1 site
- Cribrilaria1 site
- Cribrilinidae1 site
- Gemelliporidra1 site
- Glabrilaria1 site
- Goniopora hilli1 site
- Hippomenella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Reteporellina, 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
4 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama4
- Cheilostome Byrozoa of Late Eocene age from Eua, Tonga2
- Early Miocene coral reef-associated bryozoans from Colombia. Part II: “Ascophora” Cheilostomatida1
- Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic)1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Reteporellina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhidoloporidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harmer 1933