Windsoporella sp.
No picture of Windsoporella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Windsoporella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Windsoporella sp. on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Roque Redonde Formation1
- Murphy Road Formation · Windsor Group1
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The named rock units Windsoporella sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Windsoporella sp. and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Windsoporella sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Siphonodendron irregulare3 sites
- Axophyllum2 sites
- Diphyphyllum2 sites
- Kizilia2 sites
- Koninckopora inflata2 sites
- Siphonodendron pauciradiale2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- <Spongiostromata>1 site
- Allorhynchus hartii1 site
- Amplexocarinia1 site
- Anatolipora carbonica1 site
- Anisotrypa1 site
- Arachnolasma1 site
- Archaediscus1 site
- Archaediscus karreri grandis1 site
- Asteroarchaediscus1 site
- Aviculopecten lyelli1 site
- Axophyllum pseudokirsopianum1 site
- Beecheria davidsoni1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Bevocastria1 site
- Biseriella parva1 site
- Bothrophyllum1 site
- Bradyina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Windsoporella sp., 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
3 references- Mississippian coral assemblages from Tabainout mud-mound complex, Khenifra area, central Morocco1
- Rugose corals and associated carbonate microfossils from the Brigantian (Mississippian) of Catelsec (Montagne Noire, southern France)1
- Horton-Windsor district, Nova Scotia1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Windsoporella sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Windsoporella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Windsoporella sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.