Micropora coriacea

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
- MicroporaPBDB
- 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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 774 ka.
17 occurrences of Micropora coriacea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
17 occurrences- Eocene12%
- Oligocene24%
- Miocene29%
- Pliocene24%
- Pleistocene12%
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
10 formations
- Marianna Limestone Formation2
- Red Bluff Formation2
- Crystal River Formation1
- Polonez Cove Formation1
- Kolymbia Formation1
- Gatun Formation1
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The named rock units Micropora coriacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micropora coriacea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Micropora coriacea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
342 taxa- Escharella6 sites
- Margaretta6 sites
- Microporella ciliata6 sites
- Antropora5 sites
- Celleporaria5 sites
- Hippoporina5 sites
- Idmonea5 sites
- Odontionella cyclops5 sites
- Reteporella5 sites
- Smittina5 sites
- Arachnopusia unicornis4 sites
- Buffonellaria entomostoma4 sites
- Calloporina decorata4 sites
- Celleporina4 sites
- Crassimarginatella sileni4 sites
- Didymosella4 sites
- Enoplostomella4 sites
- Escharoides angela4 sites
- Fenestrulina malusi4 sites
- Filisparsa4 sites
- Hippomenella4 sites
- Hippomenella bituberosa4 sites
- Lichenopora4 sites
- Macropora grandis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Micropora coriacea, 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- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand5
- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa4
- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)2
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama2
- The cheilostome bryozoan fauna from the Late Miocene of Niebla (Guadalquivir Basin, SW Spain): environmental and biogeographic implications1
- Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, Greece1
- Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)1
- Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
Each of the 17 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 Micropora coriacea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Micropora coriacea 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 itMicropora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Johnston 1847)