Polyporella

Polyporella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
AcanthocladiidaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 93 occurrencesPermian — about 93 of 93 occurrencesPermian300–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 9 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 9 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 7 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 7 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 7 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 7 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 5 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 3 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 3 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 6 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 6 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–259 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293.52 Mya259.857 Mya299.8 Mya253.2 Mya

93 occurrences of Polyporella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

93 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

43 formations

Kapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EBazardarin — 37.72°N, 74.54°EBazardarin — 38.06°N, 74.06°EBazardarin — 38.08°N, 73.89°EGerster — 41.25°N, 115.20°WGerster — 41.30°N, 114.90°WGerster — 41.50°N, 115.20°WGerster — 41.60°N, 114.60°WSkinner Ranch — 30.20°N, 103.43°WCattle Creek — 24.85°S, 148.32°EBranxton — 32.65°S, 151.26°EBranxton — 32.90°S, 151.46°EBranxton — 32.72°S, 151.51°ENoonkanbah — 17.92°S, 123.93°ENoonkanbah — 18.70°S, 125.00°EBundella — 42.92°S, 147.36°EWest Arm — 41.18°S, 146.78°EAgglomeratic Slate — 34.10°N, 74.88°EMuree — 32.58°S, 151.73°EMuree — 32.62°S, 151.29°ENerminskaya — 67.65°N, 49.05°ENerminskaya — 66.97°N, 49.75°EGerkinskaya — 71.25°N, 56.00°EGerkinskaya — 71.55°N, 55.70°EChandalaz — 43.44°N, 132.41°EChandalaz — 44.75°N, 131.20°EBuffel — 25.37°S, 150.29°EMalbina — 42.76°S, 147.19°EDarlington — 42.56°S, 148.08°EWeston — 42.12°S, 147.30°EGreat Bear Cape — 77.36°N, 87.61°WGreat Bear Cape — 81.30°N, 92.35°WMission Argillite — 48.62°N, 118.05°WWargal — 33.00°N, 72.00°EJamal — 32.87°N, 50.07°EMinnie Point — 43.23°S, 147.35°EDeep Bay — 43.22°S, 147.09°E

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The named rock units Polyporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polyporella and its relatives

Permian

Where Polyporella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

471 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Polyporella, 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

28 references

Each of the 93 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. 16 further references are 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 Polyporella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.