Catenipora gotlandica

Männil, Ralf · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CateniporaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 430.6 Mya.
9 occurrences of Catenipora gotlandica 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician11%
- Silurian89%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Catenipora gotlandica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Catenipora gotlandica and its relatives
SilurianWhere Catenipora gotlandica and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Clathrodictyon boreale4 sites
- Paleofavosites4 sites
- Zygospiraella duboisi4 sites
- Acidolites3 sites
- Stricklandia lens3 sites
- Atrypida2 sites
- Clathrodictyon kudriavzevi2 sites
- Ecclimadictyon porkuni2 sites
- Eospirigerina2 sites
- Hesperorthis2 sites
- Propora2 sites
- Stenopareia2 sites
- Alispira1 site
- Biparetis paucirugosus1 site
- Brachyelasma estonicum1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Clathrodictyon demissum1 site
- Clathrodictyon lennuki1 site
- Clathrodictyon sulevi1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Dalmanella testudinaria1 site
- Dicranogmus1 site
- Dinophyllum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon koigiense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Catenipora gotlandica, 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
7 references- Locality 9:1 Silurian Sequences at Särghaua Field Station2
- The Incommunicate Tabulata of Estonia2
- The regional stratotype section and point for the base of the Hirnantian Stage (the uppermost Ordovician) at Mirny Creek, Omulev Mountains, Northeast Russia1
- Lower Wenlock faunal and floral dynamics - Vattenfallet section, Gotland1
- The corals of the Brassfield Formation (mid-Llandovery, Lower Silurian) in the Cincinnati Arch Region1
- Biogermnaya fatsiya v yuuruskom gorizonte (nizhniy llandoveri) v severo-zapadnoy Estonii [Biohermal facies in the Juuru stage (Lower Llandoverian) in NW Estonia]1
- A Stratigraphic revision of the lowermost Silurian in the northern east - baltic area1
Each of the 9 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
Media content1

Picture of Catenipora gotlandica
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Männil, Ralf
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Catenipora gotlandica was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCatenipora through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yabe 1915)