Thyrsoporella

Thyrsoporella

Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
DasycladalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 7 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences201.4 Mya61.66 Mya241 Mya56 Mya

7 occurrences of Thyrsoporella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

7 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

1 formation

Jafnayn — 22.68°N, 59.37°E

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The named rock units Thyrsoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thyrsoporella and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Thyrsoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Thyrsoporella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Thyrsoporella

Credit
Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thyrsoporella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDasycladales through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guembel 1871