Calloporina

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Sits inside

MicroporellidaePBDB

Diet

suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata

Life habit

epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata

Motility

stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata

Vision

blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata

Environment

marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

• Ordovician23%
• Miocene35%
• Pliocene27%
• Pleistocene15%

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.

Where Calloporina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene. Draw the map

• Microporella ciliata11 sites
• Onychocella angulosa11 sites
• Schedocleidochasma incisa8 sites
• Ceriopora palmata7 sites
• Escharoides coccinea7 sites
• Figularia figularis7 sites
• Schizotheca fissa7 sites
• Costazia costazi6 sites
• Crassimarginatella bobiesi6 sites
• Escharina vulgaris6 sites
• Escharoides megalota6 sites
• Hagiosynodos latus6 sites
• Micropora coriacea6 sites
• Myriapora truncata6 sites
• Reteporella cellulosa6 sites
• Therenia montenati6 sites
• Turbicellepora coronopus6 sites
• Chaperia annulus5 sites
• Chorizopora brongniartii5 sites
• Cribrilaria radiata5 sites
• Halloporina severozemelica5 sites
• Hippopleurifera surgens5 sites
• Schizoporella longirostris5 sites
• Smittina cervicornis5 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Calloporina, 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.

• Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)Pouyet, 2000 · Revista Española de Paleontología · journal article7
• The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New ZealandBrown, 1952 · book7
• Paleozoic bryozoa from Severnaya Zemlya (Russian Arctic)Nekhorosheva, 2002 · Geodiversitas · journal article5
• Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) froma volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)Ávila et al., 2015 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article1
• Miocene Bryozoa from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part II: ‘Ascophoran’ Cheilostomata.Di Martino and Taylor, 2015 · Scripta Geologica · journal article1
• Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeographyBerning et al., 2005 · Bryozoan Studies 2004 · book chapter1
• Coral microbialite environment in a Middle Miocene reef of HungarySaint Martin et al., 2000 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article1
• Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, GreeceSpjeldnaes and Moissette, 1997 · Cool-Water carbonates · book chapter1
• Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]Saint Martin, 1990 · Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, C · serial monograph1
• Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central TennesseeWilson, 1949 · Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin1

Each of the 26 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.

What may have been alongside itMicroporellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neviani 1895