Vermiporella

Vermiporella

Uncredited · 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
UlvophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta

Time the record covers

At least 328 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 141 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 73 occurrencesOrdovician — about 52 of 73 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 73 occurrencesDevonian — about 8 of 73 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPermian — about 10 of 73 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 73 occurrences494–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–470 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences470–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–446 Mya — about 45 occurrences446–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences386–374 Mya — about 5 occurrences374–362 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–266 Mya — about 7 occurrences266–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence471.3 Mya143.1 Mya494 Mya134 Mya

73 occurrences of Vermiporella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

73 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

Lianglitag — 40.08°N, 78.83°ELianglitag — 39.25°N, 84.67°ELianglitag — 38.77°N, 79.93°ELianglitag — 38.60°N, 79.55°EBeiguoshan — 36.21°N, 106.61°EBeiguoshan — 35.02°N, 106.66°ERagavere — 58.75°N, 24.08°ERagavere — 59.00°N, 26.00°EMjøsa Limestone — 60.75°N, 11.02°EMjøsa Limestone — 60.62°N, 10.65°ENeoschwagerina Beds — 44.51°N, 15.23°EAnderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°EMoe — 58.86°N, 24.08°EMoe — 58.74°N, 24.08°EIhmert — 51.33°N, 7.70°EManchap — 31.60°N, 78.75°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EAttawapiskat — 52.85°N, 83.90°WCarters Limestone — 35.02°N, 86.93°WKindblade — 34.37°N, 97.13°WSanjushan — 28.70°N, 118.35°ESouthesk — 53.18°N, 118.28°WChandragiri — 27.58°N, 85.38°EJipao/Jiwozhai — 25.83°N, 107.53°EWangchengpo — 25.83°N, 107.53°EMintang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EGuilin — 25.07°N, 110.13°ELapos — 46.80°N, 25.80°EYijianfang — 40.08°N, 78.83°ETaucionys — 56.93°N, 28.46°ECürten — 50.38°N, 6.70°E

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The named rock units Vermiporella 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. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vermiporella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Vermiporella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Vermiporella, 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

34 references

Each of the 73 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. 22 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 Vermiporella

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 Vermiporella 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 itUlvophyceae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stolley 1893