Petalopora

Petalopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetaloporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous134–132 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 8 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya83.6 Mya134 Mya71 Mya

15 occurrences of Petalopora on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

15 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

4 formations

Gehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°EPierre jaune — 45.77°N, 5.68°EPierre jaune — 46.12°N, 5.92°EPierre jaune — 46.02°N, 5.95°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.12°N, 5.37°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°E

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The named rock units Petalopora 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.

Petalopora and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Petalopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Petalopora, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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 Petalopora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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.

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What may have been alongside itPetaloporidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lonsdale 1850