Worthenopora
No picture of Worthenopora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Worthenopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WorthenoporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Worthenopora 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
15 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
3 formations
- Edwardsville Formation9
- Salem Limestone Formation4
- Carwood Formation · Borden Group2
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The named rock units Worthenopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Worthenopora and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Worthenopora and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Fenestella15 sites
- Cystodictya14 sites
- Fistulipora14 sites
- Hemitrypa14 sites
- Platycrinites13 sites
- Rhombopora12 sites
- Cheilotrypa11 sites
- Corynotrypa11 sites
- Rugosochonetes11 sites
- Barycrinus10 sites
- Cladochonus10 sites
- Cladochonus beecheri10 sites
- Eumetria10 sites
- Penniretepora10 sites
- Platyceras10 sites
- Punctospirifer10 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis9 sites
- Cleiothyridina9 sites
- Dielasma9 sites
- Heteralosia9 sites
- Polypora9 sites
- Synbathocrinus9 sites
- Thamniscus9 sites
- Thuramminoides9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Worthenopora, 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
6 references- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)8
- Facies Faunas of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky3
- Ecologic stability of the dysaerobic biofacies during the Late Paleozoic1
- Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippi) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky1
- Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippian) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky1
- Paleontology and Lithology of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in South-Central Kentucky1
Each of the 15 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Worthenopora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 Worthenopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Worthenopora 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 itWorthenoporidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.