Striatopora flexuosa

Striatopora flexuosa

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
StriatoporaPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 21 occurrencesSilurian — about 20 of 21 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 21 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 4 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432.9 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

21 occurrences of Striatopora flexuosa on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

21 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

7 formations

Read Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.65°N, 94.71°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.82°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WBrassfield — 39.26°N, 83.75°WBrassfield — 39.99°N, 84.35°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WTaboumakhlouf — 30.82°N, 4.53°W

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The named rock units Striatopora flexuosa 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.

Striatopora flexuosa and its relatives

Silurian

Where Striatopora flexuosa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Striatopora flexuosa, 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

7 references

Each of the 21 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. 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 Striatopora flexuosa

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Striatopora flexuosa 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 itStriatopora through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852