Cyclicopora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclicoporidaePBDB
- 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 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
9 occurrences of Cyclicopora on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Cyclicopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyclicopora and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cyclicopora and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
242 taxa- Antropora4 sites
- Enoplostomella4 sites
- Hippomenella4 sites
- Idmonea4 sites
- Smittina4 sites
- Adeonellopsis3 sites
- Didymosella3 sites
- Escharella3 sites
- Filisparsa3 sites
- Hippothoa hyalina3 sites
- Margaretta3 sites
- Mecynoecia3 sites
- Micropora coriacea3 sites
- Microporella ciliata3 sites
- Porella3 sites
- Trypostega3 sites
- Buffonellaria entomostoma2 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata2 sites
- Exochoecia2 sites
- Floridinella2 sites
- Hippoporina2 sites
- Lacerna2 sites
- Leiosellina2 sites
- Membraniporidra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cyclicopora, 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
4 references- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa6
- Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)1
- The geology and paleontology of the marine Pliocene of San Diego, California. Part 2a, Paleontology1
- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand1
Each of the 9 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 Cyclicopora
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyclicopora 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 itCyclicoporidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hincks 1879