Fistuliporidae

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. 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
- FistuliporinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 257 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
1,193 occurrences of Fistuliporidae 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
1,193 occurrences- Ordovician1%
- Silurian10%
- Devonian18%
- Carboniferous23%
- Permian48%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
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
250 formations
- Bangor Limestone Formation58
- Wreford Formation · Council Grove Group49
- Edwardsville Formation48
- Ludlowville Formation33
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group26
- Chandalaz Formation25
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Fistuliporidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 226 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 135 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fistuliporidae and its relatives
PermianWhere Fistuliporidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,300 taxa- Fistulipora167 sites
- Fenestella128 sites
- Eumetria65 sites
- Crinoidea64 sites
- Cleiothyridina61 sites
- Echinoidea59 sites
- Platyceras58 sites
- Polypora58 sites
- Rhombopora57 sites
- Tabulipora56 sites
- Archimedes54 sites
- Composita53 sites
- Favosites52 sites
- Dichocrinus51 sites
- Pentremites51 sites
- Rhabdomeson50 sites
- Orthotetes49 sites
- Bryozoa47 sites
- Rhipidomella47 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi46 sites
- Cornulites45 sites
- Camptocrinus43 sites
- Reticulariina41 sites
- Spirorbis40 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 755 sites for Fistuliporidae, and this reads 240 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
258 references- The Paleontology and Paleoecology of the Lower Bangor Limestone (Chesterian, Mississippian)in northwestern Alabama58
- Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopod and bryozoan communities of southwestern Byelorussia44
- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)40
- Mshanki Pozdnei Permi39
- Kiseleva, 198237
- Fistuliporacean bryozoans of the Wreford megacyclothem (Lower Permian) of Kansas29
- Morozova and Kruchinina, 198628
- Stratigraphic and Geographic Bryozoan Abundance Gradients in the Calcareous Shales of the Wreford Megacyclothem (Lower Permian, Kansas)22
- Faunal and Lithologic Cyclicity in the Centerfield Member (Middle Devonian: Hamilton Group) of Western New York: A Reinterpretation of Depositional History20
- Fauna of Glen Dean Limestone (Chester) in Indiana and Northern Kentucky19
- Permian bryozoans from the exotic formations in Oman18
- Non-fenestrate bryozoans from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany)17
Each of the 1,193 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. 246 further references are not listed. 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 Fistuliporidae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fistuliporidae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFistuliporina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882