Retepora flexuosa

Retepora flexuosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ReteporellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 8.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299.4 Mya289.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Retepora flexuosa 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

2 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

1 formation

Copacabana — 16.02°S, 69.20°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°W

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The named rock units Retepora flexuosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Retepora flexuosa and its relatives

Permian

Where Retepora flexuosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Retepora flexuosa, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Retepora flexuosa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Retepora flexuosa 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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What may have been alongside itReteporella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1842