Anthracoporella spectabilis

Anthracoporella spectabilis

Julius von Pia (1887–1943) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
AnthracoporellaPBDB
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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 15 of 18 occurrencesPermian308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298.9 Mya264.28 Mya307.9 Mya258.9 Mya

18 occurrences of Anthracoporella spectabilis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

18 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

Auernig — 46.59°N, 13.17°ENeoschwagerina Beds — 46.37°N, 14.11°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°ETrogkofel — 46.35°N, 14.30°E

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The named rock units Anthracoporella spectabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthracoporella spectabilis and its relatives

Permian

Where Anthracoporella spectabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Anthracoporella spectabilis, 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 18 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 Anthracoporella spectabilis

Credit
Julius von Pia (1887–1943)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anthracoporella spectabilis 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 itAnthracoporella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1920