Nematopora

Hincksina velata (Hincks, 1881), a relative of Nematopora — not Nematopora itself

Not Nematopora. This is Hincksina velata (Hincks, 1881), a relative.

nmoorhatch · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
ArthrostylidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 198 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Ordovician — about 31 of 63 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 63 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 63 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 11 of 63 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 63 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 63 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences468–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–453 Mya — about 7 occurrences453–446 Mya — about 9 occurrences446–438 Mya — about 16 occurrences438–430 Mya — about 7 occurrences430–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–355 Mya — about 1 occurrence355–348 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences348–340 Mya — about 8 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–257 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences458.2 Mya259.857 Mya476 Mya250 Mya

63 occurrences of Nematopora on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

63 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

32 formations

Borden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WSodus — 43.22°N, 77.34°WSodus — 43.23°N, 76.98°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WLoka — 58.57°N, 15.07°ELoka — 61.07°N, 15.17°EDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.00°EBoda Limestone — 60.98°N, 15.22°EUllerntangen — 60.00°N, 10.00°ECürten — 50.38°N, 6.70°EJunkerberg — 50.42°N, 6.73°EJunkerberg — 50.37°N, 6.78°EProsser — 44.50°N, 92.90°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WMission Argillite — 48.62°N, 118.05°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WRusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°ELindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWargal — 33.00°N, 72.00°EGlencar — 54.43°N, 7.85°WLower Visby — 57.85°N, 18.58°ERochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WWolcott — 43.25°N, 76.87°WGabian — 43.52°N, 3.25°E

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The named rock units Nematopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nematopora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nematopora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

908 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Nematopora, 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

28 references

Each of the 63 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. 16 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 Hincksina velata (Hincks, 1881)

Source
GBIF
Credit
nmoorhatch
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nematopora was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itArthrostylidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1888