Peronopora

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonticuliporidaePBDB
- 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 7.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
51 occurrences of Peronopora 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
51 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
21 formations
- Lexington Limestone Formation11
- Hermitage Formation7
- Kope Formation4
- Leipers Formation3
- Clays Ferry Formation3
- Fairview Formation2
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The named rock units Peronopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Peronopora and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Peronopora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
497 taxa- Heterotrypa24 sites
- Homotrypa24 sites
- Hallopora23 sites
- Amplexopora20 sites
- Escharopora19 sites
- Rafinesquina19 sites
- Ceramoporella18 sites
- Bythopora17 sites
- Platystrophia17 sites
- Zygospira17 sites
- Stigmatella15 sites
- Ambonychia14 sites
- Cyclora14 sites
- Flexicalymene14 sites
- Microceras14 sites
- Sinuites14 sites
- Corynotrypa13 sites
- Isotelus13 sites
- Lophospira13 sites
- Batostoma12 sites
- Ctenodonta12 sites
- Dekayia12 sites
- Dermatostroma12 sites
- Modiolopsis12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Peronopora, 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
11 references- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky15
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region12
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee8
- Systematic paleontology, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology of Middle Ordovician Bryozoa (Trepostomata) from the Hermitage Formation of east-central Tennessee7
- Upper Ordovician Ecology of the Central Appalachians2
- Some Waynesville and Liberty Bryozoa from Versailles, Ripley County, Indiana2
- Edrioasteroids on corals: Taphonomic feedback and sedimentary processescontrol the ecology of a Late Ordovician (Katian: Cincinnatian,Richmondian) community in central Kentucky, USA1
- Cambrian to Cretaceous changes in hardground communities1
- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie1
- Major Middle Ordovician reef tract in East Tennessee1
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan1
Each of the 51 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 Peronopora
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- iDigBio
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Peronopora 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMonticuliporidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1881