Desmepora
No picture of Desmepora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Desmepora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CytididaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Desmepora on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Desmepora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Desmepora and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Desmepora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Ceriocava incrustata3 sites
- Crisina geometrica3 sites
- Defranciopora cochloidea3 sites
- Filicea cincta3 sites
- Heteropora verrucosa3 sites
- Meliceritites porosa3 sites
- Meliceritites pseudoangulosa3 sites
- Petalopora concinna3 sites
- Petalopora pulchella3 sites
- Pustulopora verrucosa3 sites
- Sulcocava sulcata3 sites
- Ceriopora micropora2 sites
- Ceriopora semiglobosa2 sites
- Crisisina2 sites
- Diaperoecia tubuliformis2 sites
- Foricula acuminata2 sites
- Foricula nodulifera2 sites
- Mecynoecia proboscidea2 sites
- Plagioecia compressa2 sites
- Reptoclausa wolffi2 sites
- Spiropora ingens2 sites
- Spiropora verticillata2 sites
- Tholopora clavula2 sites
- Actinopora brongniarti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Desmepora, 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
2 references- Bryozoen aus dem Santon von Gehrden bei Hannover I Cyclostomata3
- Late Cretaceous environments and communities as recorded at Chrtníky (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Desmepora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Desmepora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Desmepora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCytididae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lonsdale 1850