Hemicyclopora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RomancheinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.
6 occurrences of Hemicyclopora on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene33%
- Miocene33%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene17%
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
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The named rock units Hemicyclopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemicyclopora and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hemicyclopora and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Hornera3 sites
- Callopora2 sites
- Cellaria2 sites
- Celleporina2 sites
- Cribrilinidae2 sites
- Disporella2 sites
- Escharella2 sites
- Escharina2 sites
- Exochella2 sites
- Idmidronea2 sites
- Micropora coriacea2 sites
- Oncousoecia2 sites
- Reteporella2 sites
- Adeonellopsis incompta1 site
- Amastigia1 site
- Amphiblestrum appendiculata1 site
- Amphiblestrum paleogenicum1 site
- Andreella dubia1 site
- Arachnopusia1 site
- Arachnopusia dimorpha1 site
- Arthropoma ciliata1 site
- Ascophorina1 site
- Aspidostoma clava1 site
- Aspidostoma curvatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hemicyclopora, 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
5 references- The cheilostome bryozoan fauna from the Late Miocene of Niebla (Guadalquivir Basin, SW Spain): environmental and biogeographic implications2
- Bryozoa of the Early Eocene Tumaio Limestone, Chatham Island, New Zealand1
- Bryozoans and serpuloideans in skeletobiont communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily: spatial utilisation and competitive interactions1
- Paleoecology of a Late Eocene Mobile Rockground Biota from North Otago, New Zealand1
- Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Hemicyclopora
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- MAREANO
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hemicyclopora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRomancheinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Norman 1894