Chaetetipora

No picture of Chaetetipora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Chaetetipora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChaetetiporinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chaetetida
Life habit
epifaunal, gregarious, clonalPBDB, for Chaetetida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chaetetida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 107 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 15 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesDevonian — about 9 of 15 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous461–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–452 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 6 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443.1 Mya335.9 Mya461 Mya321 Mya

15 occurrences of Chaetetipora 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

15 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

5 formations

Ban Nguon — 21.18°N, 105.07°ENam Pia — 21.43°N, 104.12°EMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°EEllis Bay — 49.62°N, 62.58°WBan Giang — 17.90°N, 105.82°E

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The named rock units Chaetetipora 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.

Chaetetipora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Chaetetipora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Chaetetipora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

6 references

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

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No picture of Chaetetipora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Chaetetipora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chaetetipora was found in Sketchfab.

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 itChaetetiporinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Struve 1898