Parastelliporella
No picture of Parastelliporella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Parastelliporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StelliporellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 454 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parastelliporella 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Parastelliporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parastelliporella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Parastelliporella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Acdalopora2 sites
- Agetolites2 sites
- Catenipora2 sites
- Eofletcheria2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Neowormsipora2 sites
- Plasmoporella2 sites
- Propora2 sites
- Sibiriolites2 sites
- Taeniolites2 sites
- Agetolitella1 site
- Agetolitoides1 site
- Amssasia sp.1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachyellasma sp.1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calapoecia1 site
- Dalmanophyllum1 site
- Eofletcheriella1 site
- Fletcheriella1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hemiagetolitella sp.1 site
- Kenophyllum1 site
- Kolymopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parastelliporella, 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
3 references- Latest Ordovician and earliest Silurian tabulate corals of South China1
- Ordovician reef systems and settings in South China before the Late Ordovician mass extinction1
- Regional stratigraphic tables of the north western China region: Volume of XingJiang Province1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Parastelliporella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Parastelliporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parastelliporella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStelliporellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lin and Chow 1977