Actinoporella

Actinoporella

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
DasycladalesPBDB
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 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEocene160–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya48.07 Mya160 Mya39 Mya

16 occurrences of Actinoporella 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

16 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

9 formations

calcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.77°N, 9.33°WFalaise de Bikfaya — 33.92°N, 35.71°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WShella — 25.43°N, 92.25°EPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°E

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The named rock units Actinoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinoporella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Actinoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Actinoporella, 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

7 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Actinoporella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Actinoporella 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 itDasycladales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.