Griphoporella

Griphoporella

Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
TriploporellaceaePBDB
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 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 93 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 88 of 93 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 93 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 93 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 93 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 93 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 93 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–221 Mya — about 2 occurrences221–216 Mya — about 2 occurrences216–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 7 occurrences207–202 Mya — about 64 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 8 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence205.7 Mya106.3 Mya240 Mya98 Mya

93 occurrences of Griphoporella on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

93 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

9 formations

Nayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ENayband — 32.33°N, 57.45°ENayband — 32.28°N, 57.43°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°EMauddud Limestone — 30.50°N, 47.68°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WRiva di Solto Shale — 45.93°N, 9.57°EHauptdolomite — 45.75°N, 15.51°ETaft — 31.62°N, 53.81°ERio Asunción — 30.68°N, 112.59°W

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The named rock units Griphoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Griphoporella and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Griphoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Griphoporella, 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

22 references

Each of the 93 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. 10 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 Griphoporella

Credit
Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Griphoporella 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.

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What may have been alongside itTriploporellaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1915