Disporella

Disporella is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Lichenoporidae.

Disporella

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
LichenoporidaePBDB
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 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 35 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences83.6 Mya129 ka87 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Disporella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

5 formations

Red Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°ERoca — 38.14°S, 67.18°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Disporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Disporella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Disporella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

619 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Disporella, 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

14 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. 2 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 Disporella

Credit
Alison M. Fortunato
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Disporella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLichenoporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.