Astroporina

No picture of Astroporina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Astroporina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MilleporellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya137.05 Mya166 Mya131.9 Mya

7 occurrences of Astroporina on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

7 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

3 formations

Bihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.17°EBihen Limestone — 11.02°N, 48.43°EBeni Zaid Limestone — 24.78°N, 56.07°EMotianling — 31.95°N, 90.80°E

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The named rock units Astroporina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astroporina and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Astroporina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Astroporina, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Astroporina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Astroporina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Astroporina 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 itMilleporellidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hudson 1960