Orioporella

Orioporella

Lucien Morellet (1882–1945), Jean Morellet (?–1951) · Public Domain · 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
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene — about 9 of 9 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61.66 Mya59.24 Mya66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

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

3 formations

Niniyur — 10.80°N, 78.70°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°EHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.70°E

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The named rock units Orioporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orioporella and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Orioporella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Orioporella, 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 content1

Picture of Orioporella

Credit
Lucien Morellet (1882–1945), Jean Morellet (?–1951)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morellet and Morellet 1922