Stenopora spiculata
No picture of Stenopora spiculata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stenopora spiculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenoporaPBDB
- 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 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 293.52 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Stenopora spiculata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
- Wasp Head Formation · Shoalhaven Group1
- Allandale Formation1
- Bundella Formation1
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The named rock units Stenopora spiculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stenopora spiculata and its relatives
PermianWhere Stenopora spiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Stenopora tasmaniensis2 sites
- Dyscritella inversa1 site
- Dyscritella restis1 site
- Parapolypora1 site
- Parapolypora boraformis1 site
- Polyporella internata1 site
- Polyporella subwoodsi1 site
- Rectifenestella expansa1 site
- Rectifenestella smithae1 site
- Stenopora etheridgei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stenopora spiculata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Permian Bryozoa of Tasmania and New South Wales: systematics and their use in Tasmanian biostratigraphy2
- Stenoporids from the Permian of New South Wales and Tasmania1
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
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No picture of Stenopora spiculata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stenopora spiculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stenopora spiculata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStenopora through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crockford 1945