Ceratopora

No picture of Ceratopora was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceratopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepraliellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 10 occurrencesDevonian423–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences419.62 Mya393.47 Mya423.4 Mya387.3 Mya

10 occurrences of Ceratopora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

10 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

2 formations

Onondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.70°N, 74.92°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°W

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The named rock units Ceratopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ceratopora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Ceratopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ceratopora, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 content0

No picture of Ceratopora was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceratopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratopora 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLepraliellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grabau 1899