Acroporella

No picture of Acroporella 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 Acroporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TriploporellaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEocene127–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 9 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya59.24 Mya127 Mya47 Mya

27 occurrences of Acroporella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

27 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

4 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°EPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ELameta — 21.37°N, 77.55°EBaratang — 12.89°N, 92.90°E

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The named rock units Acroporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acroporella and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Acroporella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Acroporella, 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

9 references

Each of the 27 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

Media content0

No picture of Acroporella 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 Acroporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acroporella 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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What may have been alongside itTriploporellaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Praturlon 1964