Stictoporella

Stictoporella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StictoporellidaePBDB
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 least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 38 of 40 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 40 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 8 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469.1 Mya425 Mya472 Mya422 Mya

40 occurrences of Stictoporella 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

40 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

22 formations

Holston — 35.92°N, 83.97°WHolston — 35.87°N, 84.07°WHolston — 36.33°N, 83.17°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDecorah Shale — 44.95°N, 93.10°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.26°WKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.42°EVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EVasalemma — 59.30°N, 24.65°ELenoir — 35.96°N, 83.92°WSunblood — 62.00°N, 126.00°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°ERidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WSunblood, Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine & Sunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WRockdell — 36.37°N, 83.32°WCopenhagen — 39.20°N, 116.25°WGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°EGlauzy — 43.53°N, 3.30°EVolkhov — 59.98°N, 32.34°E

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The named rock units Stictoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stictoporella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Stictoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

524 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Stictoporella, 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

16 references

Each of the 40 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Stictoporella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stictoporella 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 itStictoporellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882