Tabulipora
Tabulipora is an extinct genus of bryozoans belonging to the order Trepostomatida. It has been found in beds of Permian age in North America, Spitzbergen, South America, and Asia. Specimens typically form cylindrical branching colonies.
No picture of Tabulipora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tabulipora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenoporidaePBDB
- 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 104 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
320 occurrences of Tabulipora on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
320 occurrences- Devonianunder 1%
- Carboniferous41%
- Permian58%
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
71 formations
- Wreford Formation · Council Grove Group68
- Bangor Limestone Formation40
- Kapp Starostin Formation28
- Chainman Formation13
- Glen Dean Limestone Formation10
- Salem Limestone Formation9
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The named rock units Tabulipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tabulipora and its relatives
PermianWhere Tabulipora and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,065 taxa- Fenestella72 sites
- Fistulipora70 sites
- Polypora60 sites
- Eumetria49 sites
- Composita48 sites
- Archimedes44 sites
- Pentremites40 sites
- Rhabdomeson40 sites
- Echinoidea39 sites
- Orthotetes39 sites
- Cleiothyridina38 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi37 sites
- Rhombopora37 sites
- Dichocrinus33 sites
- Paladin33 sites
- Reticulariina33 sites
- Rhombopora lepidodendroides33 sites
- Camptocrinus31 sites
- Septopora31 sites
- Aphelacrinus sp.30 sites
- Streblotrypa30 sites
- Phanocrinus29 sites
- Productida28 sites
- Punctospirifer28 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 278 sites for Tabulipora, and this reads 240 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
66 references- Bryozoan Tabulipora carbonaria in Wreford megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas68
- The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama40
- Bryozoans from the Lower Permian Voringen Member (Kapp Starostin Formation), Spitsbergen, Svalbard26
- Karklins, 198616
- Mshanki Pozdnei Permi10
- Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky10
- Facies Faunas of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky9
- Permian bryozoans from the Lihuirco-Quisuar Route near Abancay, Peru8
- Stratigraphic and Geographic Bryozoan Abundance Gradients in the Calcareous Shales of the Wreford Megacyclothem (Lower Permian, Kansas)8
- Bryozoa from the Lower Carboniferous (Visean) of County Fermanagh, Ireland6
- Upper Paleozoic bryozoans from the Lake Titicaca region, Bolivia, Part 1. Introductory remarks, stratigraphy and systematic paleontology6
- Morozova and Kruchinina, 19866
Each of the 320 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. 54 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 content0
No picture of Tabulipora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tabulipora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tabulipora 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Tabulipora”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStenoporidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.