Auloporella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AuloporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 6.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
6 occurrences of Auloporella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
6 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Auloporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Auloporella and its relatives
SilurianWhere Auloporella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Favosites5 sites
- Isorthis5 sites
- Asteroidea3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Cornulites3 sites
- Cystihalysites3 sites
- Eohalysiocrinus3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Halysites magnitubus3 sites
- Lecanocrinus3 sites
- Meristina3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Ostracoda3 sites
- Sievertsia3 sites
- Spirorbis3 sites
- Stegerhynchus3 sites
- Anastrophia2 sites
- Asthenophyllum2 sites
- Astraeospongium2 sites
- Astylospongia praemorsa2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Atrypina disparilis2 sites
- Catenipora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Auloporella, 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
2 references- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America3
- The Silurian fauna of the Sandpile Group of northern British Columbia3
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Auloporella 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 Auloporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Auloporella 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 itAuloporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grubbs 1939