Steginoporella magnilabris

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · 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
- SteginoporellaPBDB
- 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 least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
7 occurrences of Steginoporella magnilabris on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene57%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene29%
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
2 formations
- Gatun Formation2
- Moin Formation · Limon Group2
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The named rock units Steginoporella magnilabris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Steginoporella magnilabris and its relatives
MioceneWhere Steginoporella magnilabris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Arachnopusia terminata2 sites
- Cellaria australis2 sites
- Selenaria maculata2 sites
- Adeonellopsis australis1 site
- Arachnopusia acanthoceros1 site
- Caberea grandis1 site
- Caleschara denticulata1 site
- Cellaria setigera1 site
- Chiastosella conservata1 site
- Claviporella aurita1 site
- Cornuticella perforata1 site
- Lanceopora obliqua1 site
- Otionella grandipora1 site
- Pterocella alata1 site
- Sertella porcellana1 site
- Tubucellaria cereoides1 site
- Tubucellaria hirsuta1 site
- Vittaticella elegans1 site
- Vittaticella gracilenta1 site
- Vittaticella hannafordi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Steginoporella magnilabris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama3
- Victorian Lower Pliocene Bryozoa. Part 13
- Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic)1
Each of the 7 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 Steginoporella magnilabris
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Steginoporella magnilabris 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 itSteginoporella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Busk 1854)