Cladopora

Cladopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachyporidaePBDB
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 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 293 occurrencesSilurian — about 96 of 293 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 186 of 293 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 293 occurrencesPermian — about 11 of 293 occurrencesPermian447–440 Mya — about 5 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 14 occurrences434–428 Mya — about 39 occurrences428–421 Mya — about 32 occurrences421–415 Mya — about 28 occurrences415–409 Mya — about 27 occurrences409–402 Mya — about 10 occurrences402–396 Mya — about 15 occurrences396–390 Mya — about 35 occurrences390–383 Mya — about 49 occurrences383–377 Mya — about 14 occurrences377–371 Mya — about 7 occurrences371–364 Mya — about 3 occurrences364–358 Mya — about 3 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 3 occurrences269–263 Mya — about 5 occurrences263–256 Mya — about 4 occurrences438.6 Mya264.28 Mya447 Mya256 Mya

293 occurrences of Cladopora 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

293 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

98 formations

Vaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WVaughn Gulch — 36.90°N, 118.07°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WOnondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 74.67°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WSkajit — 67.69°N, 161.18°WSkajit — 67.47°N, 160.88°WSkajit — 67.93°N, 149.40°WSkajit — 67.87°N, 148.70°WSkajit — 68.19°N, 146.23°WSkajit — 67.62°N, 162.28°WSkajit — 67.82°N, 161.93°WTabberabbera — 37.76°S, 147.38°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.53°N, 133.15°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°WMont Wissick — 47.67°N, 68.83°WHerkimer — 43.12°N, 75.60°WHerkimer — 43.06°N, 75.40°WHerkimer — 43.04°N, 75.36°WHerkimer — 43.03°N, 75.28°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.42°N, 116.60°WSiyak — 53.10°N, 57.43°ESiyak — 52.97°N, 57.02°ECapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 31.87°N, 104.90°WGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EGazelle — 41.31°N, 122.67°WGazelle — 41.47°N, 122.59°WGazelle — 41.39°N, 122.66°WNa Quan — 22.68°N, 106.67°ENam Pia — 21.43°N, 104.12°EBell Canyon — 31.90°N, 104.82°WDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°WDelaware Mountain — 31.60°N, 104.75°WJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°W

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The named rock units Cladopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 64 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cladopora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cladopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,468 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 218 sites for Cladopora, 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

81 references

Each of the 293 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. 69 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 content2

Picture of Cladopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-SA
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1851