Stromatoporella

Stromatoporella

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
StromatoporellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.5 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 144 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 144 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 142 of 144 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 144 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 6 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 6 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 6 occurrences402–399 Mya — about 6 occurrences399–396 Mya — about 6 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 7 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 18 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 18 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 17 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 21 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 11 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 4 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 6 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443.1 Mya365.2 Mya447 Mya357 Mya

144 occurrences of Stromatoporella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

144 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

52 formations

Santa Lucia — 42.97°N, 6.20°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.42°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.28°WSanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.10°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 5.65°WBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EJemelle — 50.05°N, 4.52°ELeduc — 53.95°N, 113.10°WKowala — 50.80°N, 20.53°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.67°EVilemovice — 49.30°N, 16.75°EVilemovice — 49.33°N, 16.73°EBlue Fiord — 77.33°N, 86.83°WBlue Fiord — 77.29°N, 85.16°WBlue Fiord — 77.49°N, 83.90°WBlue Fiord — 76.61°N, 88.48°WZarubino — 55.63°N, 85.67°EZarubino — 55.45°N, 85.52°EMoniello — 43.58°N, 5.97°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EKellerwand — 46.50°N, 13.00°ECawak — 33.98°N, 68.05°EMechra Ben Abbou — 32.97°N, 7.76°WMechra Ben Abbou — 32.64°N, 7.76°WVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°ECelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EIhmert — 51.26°N, 7.65°EAcanthopyge — 49.92°N, 14.07°EKhulmunuur — 46.30°N, 93.90°ECandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WEtroeungt — 50.73°N, 6.18°EGlubokaya — 55.23°N, 84.70°EGlubokaya — 55.52°N, 85.70°ESafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°EBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°E

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The named rock units Stromatoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stromatoporella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Stromatoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

703 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Stromatoporella, 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 144 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 Stromatoporella

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Nicholson 1886