Dendropora

Dendropora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FavositidaPBDB
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 152 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 14 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 12 of 14 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPermian447–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–409 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–397 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences397–391 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences391–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 4 occurrences378–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence419.62 Mya266.9 Mya447 Mya261 Mya

14 occurrences of Dendropora 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

14 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

9 formations

Dewal — 33.75°N, 68.03°EDewal — 33.62°N, 67.90°EBlacourt — 50.82°N, 1.75°ECawak — 33.98°N, 68.05°EBursykhirmanskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°EBeaulieu — 50.82°N, 1.75°ENevremont — 50.32°N, 3.73°EBadragha — 34.35°N, 68.35°EVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°W

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The named rock units Dendropora 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.

Dendropora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dendropora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dendropora, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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 Dendropora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFavositida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michelin 1846