Trigonopora

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UmbonulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37.71 Mya5.333 Mya41.8 Mya1.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Trigonopora on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

20 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

6 formations

Glenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°EBumpnose — 30.77°N, 85.23°WTielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°EMarianna — 31.93°N, 88.94°WPirabas — 0.21°S, 48.92°WWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°E

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The named rock units Trigonopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trigonopora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Trigonopora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Trigonopora, 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

8 references

Each of the 20 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 Trigonopora was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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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What may have been alongside itUmbonulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maplestone 1902