Epimastoporella

No picture of Epimastoporella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Epimastoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SeletonellaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 185 million years on record.

The record covers at least 311.46 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous319–312 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences312–305 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences305–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–291 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences311.46 Mya125.77 Mya319 Mya109 Mya

6 occurrences of Epimastoporella on record, most of them in the Early 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

6 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

3 formations

Lores Limestone — 43.00°N, 4.48°WPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ESmedvinskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°E

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The named rock units Epimastoporella 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.

Epimastoporella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Epimastoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Epimastoporella, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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 Epimastoporella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Epimastoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Epimastoporella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSeletonellaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roux 1979