Hippoporina

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · 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
- BitectiporidaePBDB
- 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 65 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.
67 occurrences of Hippoporina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
67 occurrences- Late Cretaceous1%
- Paleocene1%
- Eocene15%
- Oligocene15%
- Miocene31%
- Pliocene21%
- Pleistocene12%
- Holocene3%
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
24 formations
- James City Formation4
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group4
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group4
- Crystal River Limestone Formation3
- Acredale Formation2
- McBean Formation2
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The named rock units Hippoporina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hippoporina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hippoporina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
954 taxa- Cellaria contigua13 sites
- Microporella ciliata12 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata10 sites
- Nellia tenella10 sites
- Ogiva concamerata10 sites
- Porina gracilis10 sites
- Antropora9 sites
- Celleporaria9 sites
- Smittinella tatei9 sites
- Foveolaria thomasi8 sites
- Micropora coriacea8 sites
- Palmicellaria quadrifrons8 sites
- Smittina8 sites
- Vincularia gigantea8 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis7 sites
- Biflustra regularis7 sites
- Colletosia radiata7 sites
- Escharella7 sites
- Margaretta7 sites
- Melicerita angustiloba7 sites
- Palmicellaria ornata7 sites
- Reteporella7 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa7 sites
- Smittipora7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Hippoporina, 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
18 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria16
- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)9
- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand8
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama7
- Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region6
- Checklist of megafossils from the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene) at Johnson Point, Craven County, North Carolina4
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama2
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia2
- Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of Florida2
- Eocene bryozoa from the McBean Formation in Georgia2
- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa2
- The Cenozoic age of the supposed Jurassic crab Hebertides jurassica Guinot, De Angeli & Garassino, 2007 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)1
Each of the 67 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. 6 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 Hippoporina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hippoporina 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.
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What may have been alongside itBitectiporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neviani 1895