Disjectopora

Disjectopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DisjectoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Porifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Porifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 129 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Permian — about 12 of 35 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 22 of 35 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous277–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–267 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences267–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 5 occurrences253–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–233 Mya — about 3 occurrences233–228 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 3 occurrences208–204 Mya — about 5 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266.9 Mya137.05 Mya277 Mya130 Mya

35 occurrences of Disjectopora on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

35 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

14 formations

Changxing — 29.42°N, 110.90°EChangxing — 30.22°N, 109.05°EChangxing — 29.88°N, 106.50°EChangxing — 30.92°N, 119.99°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°ELengwu — 29.80°N, 119.65°EJebel Wasa — 24.70°N, 55.87°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EAbenaki — 43.69°N, 60.83°WWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°ELechkogel — 46.77°N, 14.45°EMobo — 25.83°N, 106.08°ESurmaq — 31.04°N, 52.91°EKasimlar — 37.70°N, 31.35°E

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The named rock units Disjectopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Disjectopora and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Disjectopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

534 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Disjectopora, 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

24 references

Each of the 35 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. 12 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 Disjectopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Disjectopora 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 itDisjectoporidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen and Wentzel 1888