Stictopora minuta

Heinrichson · 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
- StictoporaPBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Stictopora minuta on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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 Stictopora minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stictopora minuta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Stictopora minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Chasmatoporella3 sites
- Hallopora solbergiensis3 sites
- Metadictya3 sites
- Stictopora parvula3 sites
- Clathropora2 sites
- Enallopora osloensis2 sites
- Nematopora sublineata2 sites
- Sceptropora estoniensis2 sites
- Acanthoceramoporella1 site
- Aostipora1 site
- Barbarorthis porkuniensis1 site
- Boreadorthis sadewitzensis1 site
- Coccoseris tumulosus1 site
- Codonophyllum rhizobolon1 site
- Corynotrypa1 site
- Dianulites collifera1 site
- Dianulites grandis1 site
- Diplotrypa1 site
- Diplotrypa hvergelmi1 site
- Enallopora1 site
- Eocatenipora parallela1 site
- Eridotrypa norvegica1 site
- Fenestella striolata1 site
- Fistulipora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stictopora minuta, 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- Late Ordovician bryozoa from Ringerike, Norway2
- Hirnantian (Upper Ordovician) Bryozoa from Baltoscandia1
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 Stictopora minuta
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Heinrichson
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Stictopora minuta 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.
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What may have been alongside itStictopora through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brood 1980)