Catenipora

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CateniporinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
361 occurrences of Catenipora 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
361 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- Ordovician63%
- Silurian37%
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
98 formations
- Baraniy Formation15
- Portage Chute Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group13
- Bad Cache Rapids Formation12
- Becscie Formation · Anticosti Group9
- Whittaker Formation9
- Kuranakh Formation9
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The named rock units Catenipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Catenipora and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Catenipora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,275 taxa- Paleofavosites54 sites
- Favosites38 sites
- Propora34 sites
- Calapoecia29 sites
- Palaeophyllum28 sites
- Heliolites25 sites
- Halysites24 sites
- Receptaculites24 sites
- Streptelasma24 sites
- Strophomena18 sites
- Dinorthis17 sites
- Maclurites17 sites
- Syringopora17 sites
- Bighornia16 sites
- Bryozoa16 sites
- Hesperorthis16 sites
- Plasmoporella14 sites
- Agetolites13 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus13 sites
- Lobocorallium13 sites
- Diceromyonia12 sites
- Eochonetes12 sites
- Gastropoda12 sites
- Maclurina manitobensis12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 252 sites for Catenipora, and this reads 240 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
93 references- The Incommunicate Tabulata of Estonia59
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska30
- Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]23
- Ordovician paleontology of the Northern Hudson Bay lowland22
- Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin11
- Ordovician formations and faunas, southern Mackenzie Mountains9
- Reconnaissance of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of Northern Yukon Territory9
- Anticosti Island, Québec8
- Geology of Ordovician to Pennsylvanian rocks, M'Clintock Inlet, north coast of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago8
- Evolution of Silurian Pentamerid Communities in Wisconsin7
- Locality 9:1 Silurian Sequences at Särghaua Field Station6
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China6
Each of the 361 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. 81 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
Media content2

Picture of Catenipora
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Tiia Monto
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itCateniporinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)