Fistuliphragma

Fistuliphragma is an extinct genus of cystoporate bryozoans of the family Fistuliporidae that lived in the Devonian period. Its colonies could have branched or encrusting forms, with hollow tubular branches in the case of the branched form, and possessed a well-developed vesicular skeleton. Its autozooecia possessed prominent lunaria and hemiphragms. The genus is distinct from Cliotrypa and Strotopora because of the absence of gonozooecia.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FistuliporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesDevonian — about 27 of 27 occurrencesDevonian421–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 3 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413.02 Mya375.2 Mya420.6 Mya371.2 Mya

27 occurrences of Fistuliphragma on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

27 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

8 formations

Santa Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.97°WSanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.73°WSanta Lucia — 42.93°N, 5.87°WJunkerberg — 50.23°N, 6.47°EFreilingen — 50.87°N, 6.68°EFreilingen — 50.38°N, 6.70°ETaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°EAhbach — 50.35°N, 6.77°EEsla — 42.93°N, 5.82°WShishtu — 33.66°N, 57.15°ESkały — 50.90°N, 21.16°E

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The named rock units Fistuliphragma 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.

Fistuliphragma and its relatives

Devonian

Where Fistuliphragma and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fistuliphragma, 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

11 references

Each of the 27 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

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No picture of Fistuliphragma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Fistuliphragma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Fistuliphragma 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.

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 itFistuliporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.