Thaumatoporella

Thaumatoporella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThaumatoporellalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 185 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 176 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 176 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 26 of 176 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 176 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 176 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 26 of 176 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 176 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 74 of 176 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 176 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 176 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–230 Mya — about 6 occurrences230–223 Mya — about 3 occurrences223–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–210 Mya — about 4 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 9 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 5 occurrences196–189 Mya — about 3 occurrences189–182 Mya — about 4 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences175–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 5 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 15 occurrences148–141 Mya — about 8 occurrences141–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–113 Mya — about 5 occurrences106–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–92 Mya — about 13 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 23 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 24 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 11 occurrences72–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–58 Mya — about 10 occurrences58–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences241.464 Mya56 Mya251 Mya44 Mya

176 occurrences of Thaumatoporella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

176 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

41 formations

Trieste Karst Limestone — 45.70°N, 13.73°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.78°N, 13.65°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.75°N, 13.63°EUpper Tului — 40.10°N, 9.52°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.92°ENayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ENayband — 32.32°N, 57.46°ECalcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 10.98°ECalcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 11.13°EGornji Humac — 43.21°N, 16.58°EGornji Humac — 43.02°N, 16.22°EMonte Zugna — 45.85°N, 11.05°EMonte Zugna — 45.85°N, 11.05°ETisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°EVellerat — 47.30°N, 7.32°EOta Limestone — 39.07°N, 9.00°WVeterlin — 48.50°N, 17.33°EChay — 46.10°N, 1.13°WWetterstein — 48.58°N, 20.58°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EShotori Dolomite — 32.50°N, 57.33°E"Pantokrator limestone" — 37.33°N, 23.47°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°ELes Marno-Calcaires Supérieurs — 35.68°N, 0.92°WSchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°ELechkogel — 46.67°N, 14.85°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EJajla — 44.45°N, 34.12°E

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The named rock units Thaumatoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 116 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thaumatoporella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Thaumatoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

776 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Thaumatoporella, 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

88 references

Each of the 176 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. 76 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 Thaumatoporella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Thaumatoporella 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 itThaumatoporellales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1927