Atactoporella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonticuliporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 8.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.7 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
37 occurrences of Atactoporella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
37 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
21 formations
- Glauzy Formation3
- Lexington Limestone Formation2
- Advance Formation2
- Gabian Formation2
- Khabt-el-Hajar Formation2
- Kope Formation1
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The named rock units Atactoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Atactoporella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Atactoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
567 taxa- Hallopora22 sites
- Homotrypa19 sites
- Zygospira18 sites
- Platystrophia17 sites
- Ambonychia15 sites
- Escharopora15 sites
- Flexicalymene15 sites
- Heterotrypa15 sites
- Constellaria13 sites
- Eridotrypa13 sites
- Plectorthis12 sites
- Prasopora12 sites
- Rafinesquina12 sites
- Ceramoporella11 sites
- Dekayia11 sites
- Amplexopora10 sites
- Bythopora10 sites
- Zygospira modesta10 sites
- Corynotrypa9 sites
- Ctenodonta9 sites
- Cyclonema9 sites
- Leptotrypa9 sites
- Lophospira9 sites
- Modiolopsis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Atactoporella, 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
16 references- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region7
- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia6
- Upper Ordovician bryozoa from the Montagne de Noire, Southern France4
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee3
- Trepostomate bryozoans from the upper Katian (Upper Ordovician) of Morocco: gigantism in high latitude Gondwana platforms2
- Middle Ordovician Bryozoa from the Northern Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and the Southern MacKenzie Mountains, District of MacKenzie2
- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky2
- Quantitative paleoecologic analysis of fossil communities in the Richmond Group2
- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island2
- New Late Ordovician Bryozoans from the Tsagaan-Del Section of Central Mongolia1
- A Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) reefal bryozoan fauna from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: taxonomy and chemostratigraphy1
- Trepostome and Cystoporate Bryozoans from the Lexington Limestone and the Clays Ferry Formation (Middle and Upper Ordovician) of Kentucky1
Each of the 37 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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
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No picture of Atactoporella 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 Atactoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atactoporella 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.
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What may have been alongside itMonticuliporidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1883