Fistulipora megastoma

No picture of Fistulipora megastoma 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 Fistulipora megastoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermian449–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443.1 Mya264.28 Mya449 Mya256 Mya

3 occurrences of Fistulipora megastoma on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

3 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

2 formations

Xiala — 31.00°N, 89.00°EBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°E

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The named rock units Fistulipora megastoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fistulipora megastoma and its relatives

Permian

Where Fistulipora megastoma and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fistulipora megastoma, 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

Each of the 3 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

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No picture of Fistulipora megastoma 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 Fistulipora megastoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Fistulipora megastoma 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 itFistulipora through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sakagami 1961