Zonopora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CavidaePBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Zonopora on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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.
Zonopora and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Zonopora and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Acanthopora2 sites
- Conocoelia crassa2 sites
- Lichenopora (Radiopora)2 sites
- Oculospongia2 sites
- Reptomulticava2 sites
- Semicava multiplex2 sites
- Acrocidaris1 site
- Acrosalenia1 site
- Actinospongia1 site
- Apocladophyllia neocomiensis1 site
- Arbacia lixula1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Assierta mutiplicata1 site
- Assierta rigida1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) striatopunctatus1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Ceriocava1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chlamys archiaciana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Zonopora, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 content1
Picture of Zonopora
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Zonopora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCavidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.