Septopora

Searched as Septopora primitive. The Paleobiology Database treats Septopora as the accepted name.

Septopora is an extinct genus of bryozoan belonging to the order Fenestrida. It has been found in Pennsylvanian to Permian beds in North America, South America, Australia, and southwest and east Asia.

Septopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SeptoporidaePBDB
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 most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347.2 Mya329.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Septopora 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

5 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

Murphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°WMacumber and White Quarry — 45.03°N, 64.09°WMiller Creek and Wentworth Station — 45.02°N, 64.06°W

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

Septopora and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Septopora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,410 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 243 sites for Septopora, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Septopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Septopora was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.