Monoporella

Monoporella is a genus of bryozoans in the family Monoporellidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

No picture of Monoporella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Monoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MonoporellidaePBDB
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 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 9 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61.66 Mya7.246 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

9 occurrences of Monoporella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

9 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

2 formations

Roca — 39.00°S, 67.56°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°E

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The named rock units Monoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monoporella and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Monoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Monoporella, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

No picture of Monoporella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Monoporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Monoporella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMonoporellidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hincks 1881