Drepanophora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LepraliellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.8 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Drepanophora on record. 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene25%
- Holocene75%
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
1 formation
- Moin Formation · Limon Group1
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The named rock units Drepanophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Agaricia agaricites3 sites
- Celleporaria3 sites
- Montastrea cavernosa3 sites
- Pseudodiploria clivosa3 sites
- Siderastrea siderea3 sites
- Smittipora3 sites
- Stephanocoenia intersepta3 sites
- Acropora cervicornis2 sites
- Agaricia2 sites
- Botula fusca2 sites
- Characodoma2 sites
- Cigclisula2 sites
- Coleopora2 sites
- Colpophyllia natans2 sites
- Crepidacantha2 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata2 sites
- Dichocoenia stokesi2 sites
- Diploria2 sites
- Diploria labyrinthiformis2 sites
- Eusmilia fastigiata2 sites
- Exechonella2 sites
- Lithophaga antillarum2 sites
- Lithophaga aristata2 sites
- Lithophaga bisulcata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Drepanophora, 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- Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of Florida3
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Drepanophora
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Drepanophora 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 itLepraliellidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harmer 1957