Macroporella

Macroporella

Julius von Pia (1887–1943) · Public Domain · 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
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 177 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 74 occurrencesPermian — about 33 of 74 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 74 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 15 of 74 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 74 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 74 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 74 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 74 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 74 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous308–301 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences301–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence274–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 14 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 10 occurrences248–241 Mya — about 13 occurrences241–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–228 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–215 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences215–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–156 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences156–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–136 Mya — about 3 occurrences136–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences298.9 Mya121.4 Mya308 Mya109 Mya

74 occurrences of Macroporella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

74 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

25 formations

Changxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 29.50°N, 106.40°EDelaware Mountain — 31.17°N, 104.35°WDelaware Mountain — 31.23°N, 104.51°WRecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°EGnishik — 38.98°N, 45.53°ERio Asunción — 30.68°N, 112.59°WHanwang — 31.63°N, 104.40°ENeoschwagerina Beds — 46.37°N, 14.11°ELower Diplopora Limestone — 46.20°N, 15.23°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°EHolder — 32.96°N, 105.92°WSchlern — 46.47°N, 13.33°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°ECamorelli — 45.80°N, 10.07°ELatemar Limestone — 46.43°N, 11.85°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WLärchberg — 47.62°N, 12.67°EEros Limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EBellerophon Limestone — 46.57°N, 11.63°ESchlern Dolomite — 46.57°N, 13.30°EGnishik — 38.94°N, 45.51°EKhachik — 38.94°N, 45.51°EPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°E

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The named rock units Macroporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macroporella and its relatives

Permian

Where Macroporella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

710 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Macroporella, 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

50 references

Each of the 74 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. 38 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 Macroporella

Credit
Julius von Pia (1887–1943)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Macroporella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1912