Mamillopora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MamilloporidaePBDB
- 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 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
31 occurrences of Mamillopora on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
31 occurrences- Miocene6%
- Pliocene61%
- Pleistocene32%
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
6 formations
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group11
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group9
- Moin Formation · Limon Group7
- Gatun Formation2
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group1
- Shark Hole Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
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The named rock units Mamillopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mamillopora and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Mamillopora and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
702 taxa- Cupuladria canariensis5 sites
- Cupuladria biporosa4 sites
- Discoporella4 sites
- Antillocyathus gracilis3 sites
- Paracyathus adetos3 sites
- Schizoporella cornuta3 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Alabina2 sites
- Amphistegina gibbosa2 sites
- Antropora2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Argopecten2 sites
- Biflustra savartii2 sites
- Bolivina2 sites
- Bolivina marginata2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Cancris sagra2 sites
- Cassidulina2 sites
- Cativella2 sites
- Cavolinia2 sites
- Celleporaria2 sites
- Characodoma2 sites
- Cibicides2 sites
- Cymbaloporetta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mamillopora, 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
3 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama29
- Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic)1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 31 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Mamillopora
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mamillopora 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 itMamilloporidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1927