Ceramopora imbricata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeramoporaPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
15 occurrences of Ceramopora imbricata 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
15 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
7 formations
- Rochester Formation · Clinton Group7
- Rochester Shale Formation · Clinton Group2
- Williamson Shale Formation · Clinton Group2
- Rusilov Formation1
- Franopol' Formation1
- Osgood Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Ceramopora imbricata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceramopora imbricata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Ceramopora imbricata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Atrypa reticularis13 sites
- Dalmanites12 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis12 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis11 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus11 sites
- Enterolasma10 sites
- Favosites9 sites
- Atrypa8 sites
- Beyrichia8 sites
- Dalmanella8 sites
- Whitfieldella nitida8 sites
- Camarotoechia neglecta7 sites
- Craniops7 sites
- Dawsonoceras annulatum7 sites
- Fenestella7 sites
- Semicoscinium7 sites
- Bumastus ioxus6 sites
- Chasmatopora6 sites
- Cytherina spinosa6 sites
- Dictyonema6 sites
- Dolerorthis flabellites6 sites
- Eospinatrypa nodostriata6 sites
- Fistulipora6 sites
- Mesotrypa6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Ceramopora imbricata, 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
5 references- The Clinton of Western and Central New York8
- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology2
- Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopod and bryozoan communities of southwestern Byelorussia2
- Bathymetry and paleoecology of Silurian benthic assemblages, late Llandoverian, New York State2
- Osgood (Niagaran) bryozoans from the type area1
Each of the 15 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 Ceramopora imbricata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ceramopora imbricata 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 itCeramopora through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852