Hallopora elegantula

Hallopora elegantula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HalloporaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hallopora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hallopora
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hallopora
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 26 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 17 of 26 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.5 Mya432.9 Mya458.9 Mya422 Mya

26 occurrences of Hallopora elegantula on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

26 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

18 formations

Rochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.69°WHerkimer — 43.10°N, 75.23°WHerkimer — 43.12°N, 75.60°WCystoid Limestone — 41.18°N, 1.23°WReynales — 43.18°N, 78.75°WGasport Limestone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WSaelabonn — 60.17°N, 10.30°EIrondequoit — 43.12°N, 79.07°WZel’van — 52.00°N, 24.00°EManitoulin Dolomite — 45.83°N, 82.07°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WLower Visby — 57.85°N, 18.58°EGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°EGlauzy — 43.53°N, 3.30°EUggwa — 46.57°N, 13.13°EEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 62.53°WKorgessaare — 58.90°N, 22.70°EArina — 59.00°N, 25.00°ESlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.82°N, 4.63°W

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The named rock units Hallopora elegantula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Hallopora elegantula and its relatives

Silurian

Where Hallopora elegantula and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Hallopora elegantula, 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

14 references

Each of the 26 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. 2 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 Hallopora elegantula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Hallopora elegantula 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bassler 1911)