Esthoniopora communis

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- EsthonioporaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.9 Mya.
12 occurrences of Esthoniopora communis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
12 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Esthoniopora communis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Esthoniopora communis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Esthoniopora communis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Diplotrypa bicornis6 sites
- Dianulites petropolitana4 sites
- Esthoniopora curvata4 sites
- Hallopora dybowskii3 sites
- Nematotrypa gracilis3 sites
- Orbipora distincta3 sites
- Corynotrypa delicatula2 sites
- Dianulites collucatus2 sites
- Diplotrypa petropolitana2 sites
- Dittopora annulata2 sites
- Graptodictya bonnemai2 sites
- Hemiphragma panderi2 sites
- Hemiphragma rotundatum2 sites
- Homotrypella instabilis2 sites
- Lioclema spineum2 sites
- Revalotrypa gibbosa2 sites
- Stomatopora arachnoidea2 sites
- Anolotichia impolita1 site
- Anolotichia sacculus1 site
- Antigonambonites anna1 site
- Antigonambonites costatus1 site
- Arthroclema armatum1 site
- Batostoma fertile1 site
- Batostoma granulosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Esthoniopora communis, 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- The early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces10
- Bryozoan fauna from the Kunda Stage (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician) of Estonia and NW Russia1
- Borings and bioclaustrations in bryozoans from the Kunda Regional Stage (Darriwilian; Middle Ordovician) of northern Estonia and NW Russia1
Each of the 12 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 Esthoniopora communis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Wahl
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Esthoniopora communis 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.
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What may have been alongside itEsthoniopora through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1911