Helopora

Helopora

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 44 of 114 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 56 of 114 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 14 of 114 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 11 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 12 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 10 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 22 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 17 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 11 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–421 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 7 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 3 occurrences458.2 Mya387.95 Mya473 Mya381 Mya

114 occurrences of Helopora 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

114 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

34 formations

Silica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WSodus — 43.20°N, 77.62°WSodus — 43.22°N, 77.34°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSodus — 43.29°N, 76.74°WSodus — 43.28°N, 76.60°WSodus — 43.15°N, 75.56°WFurnaceville — 43.17°N, 77.63°WFurnaceville — 43.23°N, 77.33°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.16°WFurnaceville — 43.26°N, 77.06°WFurnaceville — 43.25°N, 77.02°WFurnaceville — 43.29°N, 76.74°WFurnaceville — 43.31°N, 76.58°WReynales — 43.17°N, 79.03°WReynales — 43.20°N, 77.62°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WHolston — 35.92°N, 83.97°WHolston — 35.87°N, 84.07°WHolston — 36.33°N, 83.17°WBear Creek — 43.29°N, 76.74°WBear Creek — 43.31°N, 76.58°WWether Law Linn — 55.81°N, 3.37°WKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.42°N, 85.01°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WAmadjuak — 68.80°N, 81.24°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.75°N, 81.63°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.34°N, 82.37°WWolcott — 43.25°N, 76.87°WWolcott — 43.24°N, 76.80°WDay Point — 44.83°N, 73.34°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WSodus Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WPierce Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WRidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°ERusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°E

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The named rock units Helopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Helopora and its relatives

Silurian

Where Helopora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Helopora, 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

30 references

Each of the 114 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. 18 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 Helopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Hall 1851