Nematoporella falcata

No picture of Nematoporella falcata 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 Nematoporella falcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NematoporellaPBDB
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 most 4.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.1 Mya445 Mya

4 occurrences of Nematoporella falcata 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

4 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

Stony Mountain — 48.43°N, 98.68°WStony Mountain — 48.83°N, 98.90°WStony Mountain — 47.88°N, 100.89°WStony Mountain — 50.07°N, 97.22°W

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The named rock units Nematoporella falcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nematoporella falcata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nematoporella falcata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nematoporella falcata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Nematoporella falcata 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 Nematoporella falcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nematoporella falcata 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 itNematoporella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lobdell 1992