Ceramoporella

Ceramoporella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
CeramoporidaePBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 52 of 54 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 54 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 5 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 11 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 6 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 6 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya432.9 Mya472.2 Mya425.8 Mya

54 occurrences of Ceramoporella 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

54 occurrences

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

28 formations

Mingan — 50.20°N, 63.35°WMingan — 50.22°N, 64.13°WMingan — 50.22°N, 64.20°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.30°WMingan — 50.22°N, 63.68°WMingan — 50.32°N, 64.05°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.08°N, 85.25°WWaynesville — 41.00°N, 86.69°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 41.00°N, 86.69°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.58°N, 84.75°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WPierce Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°EVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EBellevue — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.82°N, 4.63°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCatheys — 35.50°N, 86.50°WAngir — 68.00°N, 88.00°EClays Ferry — 38.00°N, 84.67°WBowen — 36.63°N, 82.73°WLower Visby — 57.85°N, 18.58°E

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The named rock units Ceramoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceramoporella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ceramoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

704 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Ceramoporella, 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

18 references

Each of the 54 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Ceramoporella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceramoporella 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 itCeramoporidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882