Spathipora
Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- TerebriporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Spathipora on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Spathipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spathipora and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Spathipora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Balanus3 sites
- Brachyura3 sites
- Cliona3 sites
- Clypeasteroida3 sites
- Polydora3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Anadara aequicostata2 sites
- Astyris lunata2 sites
- Boonea impressa2 sites
- Boonea seminuda2 sites
- Busycon2 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus2 sites
- Caryocorbula conradi2 sites
- Cerithiopsis vinca2 sites
- Chaetopleura2 sites
- Chemnitzia2 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata2 sites
- Cosmotriphora dupliniana2 sites
- Cotonopsis (Cotonopsis) lafresnayi2 sites
- Crepidula convexa2 sites
- Crepidula fornicata2 sites
- Crepidula plana2 sites
- Cribrilina2 sites
- Cumingia tellinoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spathipora, 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- Checklist of megafossils from the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene) at Johnson Point, Craven County, North Carolina2
- Marginal marine Pleistocene fossils from near mouth of Mad River, northern California1
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 Spathipora
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Observation International
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Spathipora 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTerebriporidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.