Fistulipora
Searched as Cyclotrypa. The Paleobiology Database treats Fistulipora as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FistuliporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 257 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
824 occurrences of Fistulipora on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
824 occurrences- Ordovician1%
- Silurian11%
- Devonian14%
- Carboniferous23%
- Permian51%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
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
201 formations
- Wreford Formation · Council Grove Group49
- Bangor Limestone Formation48
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group21
- Chandalaz Formation21
- Kazan Formation20
- Edwardsville Formation19
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The named rock units Fistulipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 177 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 101 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fistulipora and its relatives
PermianWhere Fistulipora and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,469 taxa- Fenestella110 sites
- Polypora71 sites
- Tabulipora66 sites
- Cleiothyridina65 sites
- Eumetria62 sites
- Rhombopora58 sites
- Echinoidea57 sites
- Archimedes53 sites
- Rhabdomeson53 sites
- Composita51 sites
- Crinoidea51 sites
- Dichocrinus51 sites
- Pentremites50 sites
- Orthotetes48 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi46 sites
- Camptocrinus43 sites
- Spirorbis43 sites
- Reticulariina41 sites
- Streblotrypa41 sites
- Aphelacrinus sp.39 sites
- Torynifer39 sites
- Paladin37 sites
- Platyceras37 sites
- Productida37 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 538 sites for Fistulipora, and this reads 240 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
208 references- The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama48
- Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopod and bryozoan communities of southwestern Byelorussia42
- Mshanki Pozdnei Permi39
- Kiseleva, 198232
- Fistuliporacean bryozoans of the Wreford megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas29
- Morozova and Kruchinina, 198625
- Stratigraphic and Geographic Bryozoan Abundance Gradients in the Calcareous Shales of the Wreford Megacyclothem (Lower Permian, Kansas)22
- Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky17
- Permian bryozoans from the exotic formations in Oman15
- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)15
- Upper Paleozoic bryozoans from the Lake Titicaca region, Bolivia, Part 1. Introductory remarks, stratigraphy and systematic paleontology14
- Bryozoans from the Lower Permian Voringen Member (Kapp Starostin Formation), Spitsbergen, Svalbard13
Each of the 824 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. 196 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 Fistulipora
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fistulipora 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 itFistuliporidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Dudley 1944