Physoporella

Physoporella

Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898) · 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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 34 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 31 of 34 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 34 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 34 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 3 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 12 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 15 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259.857 Mya237 Mya266 Mya200 Mya

34 occurrences of Physoporella on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

34 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

6 formations

Wetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EHaizer-Akouker — 36.46°N, 4.17°EMuschelkalk — 50.53°N, 18.28°ELower Diplopora Limestone — 46.38°N, 14.50°ELower Diplopora Limestone — 46.20°N, 15.23°EAnshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°ECamorelli — 45.80°N, 10.07°E

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The named rock units Physoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Physoporella and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Physoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Physoporella, 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

13 references

Each of the 34 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Physoporella

Credit
Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel (1823–1898)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Physoporella 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steinmann 1903