Dasyporella

Oraspõld, Asta · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SeletonellaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
10 occurrences of Dasyporella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
7 formations
- Anderken Formation2
- Moe Formation2
- Rockdell Formation1
- Chandragiri Formation1
- Sanqushan Formation1
- Beiguoshan Formation1
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The named rock units Dasyporella 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.
Dasyporella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dasyporella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Vermiporella6 sites
- Renalcis3 sites
- Amphilichas2 sites
- Apidium2 sites
- Catenipora tractabilis2 sites
- Contexta binata2 sites
- Eokosovopeltis romanovskii2 sites
- Eoplectodonta2 sites
- Girvanella2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Mastopora2 sites
- Mesotaphraspis2 sites
- Pliomerina2 sites
- Amsassia1 site
- Anoptambonites1 site
- Bellimurina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bokotorthis minuta1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cheirurus1 site
- Clathrodictyida1 site
- Coelosphaeridium1 site
- Communicrinus1 site
- Corymbospongia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dasyporella, 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
9 references- Locality 9:1 Silurian Sequences at Särghaua Field Station2
- Distinguishing coral reef facies from coral-bearing open platform facies: Examples from Ordovician Ordos Basin, Northwest China1
- The first sphinctozoan-bearing reef from an Ordovician back-arc basin1
- Sedimentology of a Mid-Late Ordovician carbonate mud-mound complex from the Katmandu nappe in Central Nepal1
- Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics1
- Sedimentology and distinction of carbonate buildups: Middle Ordovician, east Tennessee1
- Occurrence and distribution of fossils within and adjacent to Middle Ordovician bioherms in the southern Appalachians of Alabama1
- Anderkenskaya biogermnaya gryada i istoriya yeye obrazovaniya [The Anderken bioherm ridge and the history of its origin]1
- Upper Ordovician and lower Silurian deposits of the Mount Akdombak area in Chingiz1
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 content1

Picture of Dasyporella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Oraspõld, Asta
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Dasyporella 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 itSeletonellaceae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stolley 1893