Petaloporella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhabdomesidaePBDB
- 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 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
3 occurrences of Petaloporella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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 Petaloporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Petaloporella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Petaloporella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Ascodictyon2 sites
- Corynotrypa2 sites
- Fistulipora2 sites
- Hederella2 sites
- Leioclema2 sites
- Schizophoria2 sites
- Vinella2 sites
- Acanthoclema1 site
- Allonema moniliforme moniliforme1 site
- Anticalyptraea1 site
- Atactotoechus1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypida1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Auloporidae1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Blothrophyllum1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Calceola sandalina1 site
- Clionolithes1 site
- Conodonta indet.1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Cornulitidae1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Petaloporella, 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- Middle Devonian brachiopod-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the northern shelf of Gondwana (Mader Basin, Morocco): Diversity, colonization patterns and relation to coeval palaeocommunities1
- Petaloporella (Cryptostomata, Bryozoa) from the Lower Devonian of central Bohemia1
- Devonian bryozoans of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Part I. Ctenostomata1
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
Media content0
No picture of Petaloporella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Petaloporella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itRhabdomesidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.