Loculipora

Loculipora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FenestellidaePBDB
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 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 39 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 39 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 36 of 39 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 39 occurrencesCarboniferous445–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 9 occurrences387–383 Mya — about 22 occurrences383–379 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–328 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432.9 Mya335.9 Mya445 Mya328 Mya

39 occurrences of Loculipora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

39 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

Ludlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.75°N, 76.70°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.22°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.13°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°ESkaly — 50.88°N, 21.03°EJunkerberg — 50.21°N, 6.46°E

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

Loculipora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Loculipora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Loculipora, 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

8 references

Each of the 39 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 Loculipora

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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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What may have been alongside itFenestellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.