Dysnoetopora

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DysnoetoporidaePBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Dysnoetopora 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
8 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
4 formations
- Mesaverde Formation5
- Prairie Bluff Formation · Selma Group1
- Ripley Formation1
- Pierre Shale Formation · Montana Group1
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The named rock units Dysnoetopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dysnoetopora and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dysnoetopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
350 taxa- Anomia argentaria2 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
- Avitelmessus grapsoideus2 sites
- Callianassa mortoni2 sites
- Conopeum2 sites
- Crassatella vadosa2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Cymbophora2 sites
- Cyprimeria2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata2 sites
- Gyrodes2 sites
- Hamulus onyx2 sites
- Icanotia2 sites
- Linearis2 sites
- Liopistha protexta2 sites
- Lithophaga2 sites
- Lucina2 sites
- Martesia2 sites
- Nemodon2 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Nucula percrassa2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dysnoetopora, 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
3 references- Bryozoa from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Southwestern Wyoming6
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each of the 8 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 Dysnoetopora
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dysnoetopora was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itDysnoetoporidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1926