Mastopora compacta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MastoporaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Mastopora compacta 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mastopora compacta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mastopora compacta and its relatives
DevonianWhere Mastopora compacta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Alveolites3 sites
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Rothpletzella3 sites
- Thamnopora3 sites
- Allonema silurica2 sites
- Alveolites (Tetralites) praetenuissimus parvicorallitus2 sites
- Athyris2 sites
- Clathrocoilona obliterata2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Flabellia ufensis2 sites
- Girvanella problematica2 sites
- Givetianella tsienii2 sites
- Habrostroma2 sites
- Mesophyllum2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Platyaxum2 sites
- Sociophyllum2 sites
- Solenoporaceae2 sites
- Squameoalveolites strigosus cusanorum2 sites
- Stringophyllum2 sites
- Stromatopora huepschii2 sites
- Synthetostroma actinostromoides2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mastopora compacta, 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
2 references- Paleoecology of upper Eifelian and lower Givetian coral limestones in the northwestern Sauerland (Devonian; Rhenish Massif)2
- The Jiwozhai patch reef: A palaeobiodiversity hotspot in middle Givetian (Devonian) of South China1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mastopora compacta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mastopora compacta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itMastopora through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tchernychev 1941)