Solenopora

The extinct Solenoporaceae have traditionally been interpreted as a group of red algae ancestral to the Corallinales.

Solenopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolenoporaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Rhodophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 430 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 100 of 307 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 19 of 307 occurrencesDevonian — about 13 of 307 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 307 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 17 of 307 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 307 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 34 of 307 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 69 of 307 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 307 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 307 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 25 of 307 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 307 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 307 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 307 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 307 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 307 occurrences486–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–455 Mya — about 35 occurrences455–440 Mya — about 65 occurrences440–425 Mya — about 13 occurrences425–409 Mya — about 9 occurrences409–394 Mya — about 3 occurrences394–378 Mya — about 3 occurrences378–363 Mya — about 3 occurrences363–348 Mya — about 2 occurrences348–332 Mya — about 4 occurrences332–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–286 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–256 Mya — about 11 occurrences256–240 Mya — about 30 occurrences240–225 Mya — about 22 occurrences225–209 Mya — about 19 occurrences209–194 Mya — about 34 occurrences194–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–148 Mya — about 21 occurrences148–133 Mya — about 5 occurrences133–117 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence468 Mya37.71 Mya486 Mya25 Mya

307 occurrences of Solenopora 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

307 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

102 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.02°N, 81.63°WWardell — 37.08°N, 81.55°WWardell — 37.10°N, 81.34°WWardell — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.73°WWardell — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWardell — 37.06°N, 81.75°WDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.07°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°ELianglitag — 39.25°N, 84.67°ELianglitag — 38.77°N, 79.93°ELianglitag — 38.60°N, 79.55°EKorallenoolith — 52.18°N, 9.38°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.60°ELexington Limestone — 38.23°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 37.98°N, 84.42°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WCrown Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WCrown Point — 44.67°N, 73.32°WCrown Point — 44.24°N, 73.31°WGerence — 38.43°N, 26.60°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°EVasalemma — 59.25°N, 27.45°EVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EVasalemma — 59.30°N, 24.65°EBobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WCalcare di Zu — 46.05°N, 9.05°ECalcare di Zu — 45.78°N, 9.50°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EHeceta — 55.73°N, 133.47°WHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.17°WAugusta Mountain — 39.61°N, 117.49°WUpper Tului — 40.10°N, 9.52°EDelaware Mountain — 31.23°N, 104.51°WCarters Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCarters Limestone — 35.02°N, 86.93°WBigby-Cannon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°ESteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°E

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The named rock units Solenopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 78 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solenopora and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Solenopora and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 220 sites for Solenopora, 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

145 references

Each of the 307 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. 133 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 content2

Picture of Solenopora

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Dybowski 1877