Tubuliporidae

Tubuliporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cyclostomatida.

Tubuliporidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TubuliporinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 457 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 129 ka.

Ordovician — about 5 of 138 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 138 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 138 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 138 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 138 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 138 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 138 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 138 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 138 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 138 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 138 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 138 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 138 occurrencesPaleocene — about 24 of 138 occurrencesEocene — about 15 of 138 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 138 occurrencesMiocene — about 47 of 138 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 138 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 138 occurrences481–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence337–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–64 Mya — about 17 occurrences64–48 Mya — about 21 occurrences48–32 Mya — about 12 occurrences32–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 65 occurrences458.2 Mya774 ka481 Mya0 Mya

138 occurrences of Tubuliporidae 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

138 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

28 formations

Clayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WMarianna Limestone — 31.07°N, 87.10°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WKorojon — 22.99°S, 114.09°EMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EHarudi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.70°ERed Bluff — 32.32°N, 90.89°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°ESanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WSugar River — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EBig Snowy — 45.75°N, 112.00°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WPerte-du-Rhone — 45.12°N, 5.37°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WByram Marl — 31.69°N, 88.66°WOjlemyr cherts — 57.82°N, 18.90°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°E

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The named rock units Tubuliporidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tubuliporidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tubuliporidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,866 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Tubuliporidae, 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

45 references

Each of the 138 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. 33 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 Tubuliporidae

Credit
British Museum
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tubuliporidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnston 1838