Porambonites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PorambonitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
148 occurrences of Porambonites 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
148 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
56 formations
- Volkhov Formation39
- Hirmuse Formation6
- Furuberget Formation · Kirkerud Group5
- Sillaoru Formation5
- Lynna Formation5
- Keila Formation4
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The named rock units Porambonites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Porambonites and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Porambonites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,005 taxa- Antigonambonites planus33 sites
- Paurorthis31 sites
- Linguloidea29 sites
- Apomatella ingrica28 sites
- Lonchodomas volborthi24 sites
- Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus23 sites
- Pseudocrania23 sites
- Ranorthis23 sites
- Nicolella22 sites
- Paralenorthis orbicularis22 sites
- Saukrodictya19 sites
- Remopleurides18 sites
- Sowerbyella18 sites
- Eosiphonotreta17 sites
- Illaenus17 sites
- Ingria nefedjevi17 sites
- Nothortis sp.17 sites
- Onniella17 sites
- Productorthis parallela17 sites
- Gonambonites16 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) acuticauda16 sites
- Ristnacrinus marinus16 sites
- Virucrinus kegelensis16 sites
- Cybele bellatula15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Porambonites, 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
46 references- Brachiopod macrofaunal distribution through the upper Volkhov - lower Kunda (Low Ordovician) rocks, Lynna River, St. Petersburg region37
- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia14
- Ordovician (Arenig-Caradoc) syntrophiidine brachiopods from the east Baltic region9
- Resolving early Mid-Ordovician (Kundan) bioevents in the East Baltic based on brachiopods7
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway 9. Brachiopods of the family Porambonitidae7
- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China5
- New data on the distribution of brachiopods in the Johvi Stage of North Estonia5
- The geology of the Baltic Republics4
- Locality 9:1 Silurian Sequences at Särghaua Field Station4
- Stratigrafia viruskoy i kharjuskoy seriy (ordovik) Sevemoy Estonii. [Stratigraphy of the Viruan and Harjuan Series (Ordovician) in North Estonia]4
- The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda4
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)2
Each of the 148 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. 34 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 Porambonites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Porambonites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pander 1830