Tetraporinus

No picture of Tetraporinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tetraporinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetraporellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 28 occurrencesSilurian — about 3 of 28 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 28 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 20 of 28 occurrencesPermian453–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences396–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–339 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences339–333 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences333–327 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–289 Mya — about 3 occurrences289–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–276 Mya — about 9 occurrences276–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443.1 Mya274.4 Mya453 Mya263 Mya

28 occurrences of Tetraporinus 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

28 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

8 formations

Qixia — 29.68°N, 106.77°EQixia — 30.27°N, 117.98°EQixia — 31.63°N, 117.83°EQixia — 30.35°N, 116.85°EQixia — 30.03°N, 109.65°EQixia — 31.12°N, 112.31°EQixia — 23.71°N, 109.23°ETreskelodden Beds — 77.00°N, 16.25°ETreskelodden Beds — 77.03°N, 16.22°ETreskelodden Beds — 77.07°N, 16.12°EMonroe Canyon — 43.83°N, 111.48°WKuranakh — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKuranakh — 63.52°N, 136.60°EBaraniy — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°ETunlonggongba — 34.01°N, 80.36°EMalyi Patok — 65.48°N, 59.35°E

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The named rock units Tetraporinus 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.

Tetraporinus and its relatives

Permian

Where Tetraporinus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Tetraporinus, 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

11 references

Each of the 28 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 content0

No picture of Tetraporinus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Tetraporinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tetraporinus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTetraporellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1947