Stomatopora

Stomatopora is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Stomatoporidae.

Stomatopora

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
StomatoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 455 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.4 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 89 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 89 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 89 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 89 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 89 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 89 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 89 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 89 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 28 of 89 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 89 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 89 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 89 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 89 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 89 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 89 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 89 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 89 occurrences471–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–439 Mya — about 15 occurrences439–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–408 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–235 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences235–220 Mya — about 3 occurrences220–204 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences204–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–157 Mya — about 18 occurrences157–141 Mya — about 18 occurrences141–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–110 Mya — about 9 occurrences110–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence458 Mya2.58 Mya471 Mya0 Mya

89 occurrences of Stomatopora on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

89 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

39 formations

Kope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WSan Cassiano — 46.65°N, 12.21°ESan Cassiano — 46.67°N, 12.19°ESan Cassiano — 46.25°N, 12.13°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WKorojon — 22.99°S, 114.09°EDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WArgiles a Lopha gregarea — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°EDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.25°N, 5.62°EHarudi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.70°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°ERead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°ECoral Rag — 51.77°N, 1.25°WVellerat — 47.30°N, 7.32°E

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The named rock units Stomatopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stomatopora and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Stomatopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,597 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Stomatopora, 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

53 references

Each of the 89 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. 41 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 Stomatopora

Credit
Alison M. Fortunato
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stomatopora 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.

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. Bronn 1825