Stenopora

Stenopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans first described in 1845, using material collected by Charles Darwin. Its colonies can be branching, frondescent, encrusting, or massive, and shapes display variation even within single colonies. Diaphragms are absent and acanthostyles of uniform size surround its zooecial apertures.

Stenopora

Ross, Carmine · CC BY 4.0 · 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
StenoporinaePBDB
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 220 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 274 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 274 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 274 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 23 of 274 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 242 of 274 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 274 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 274 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 274 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–425 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences425–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences400–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–383 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences366–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–349 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences349–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–332 Mya — about 5 occurrences332–324 Mya — about 5 occurrences324–315 Mya — about 3 occurrences315–307 Mya — about 1 occurrence307–299 Mya — about 7 occurrences299–290 Mya — about 40 occurrences290–282 Mya — about 35 occurrences282–273 Mya — about 32 occurrences273–265 Mya — about 65 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 47 occurrences256–248 Mya — about 24 occurrences239–231 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences231–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457.3 Mya237 Mya476 Mya222 Mya

274 occurrences of Stenopora 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

274 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

101 formations

Berriedale — 42.84°S, 147.19°EBerriedale — 42.85°S, 147.25°EBundella — 43.20°S, 147.03°EBundella — 42.92°S, 147.36°EBundella — 42.12°S, 147.30°EGerringong — 34.50°S, 150.85°EGerringong — 34.76°S, 150.74°EGerringong — 34.78°S, 150.82°EGerringong — 34.42°S, 150.91°EAllandale — 32.74°S, 151.38°EAllandale — 32.78°S, 151.30°EAllandale — 32.65°S, 151.58°EAllandale — 32.65°S, 151.50°EFord — 54.83°N, 1.37°WFord — 54.88°N, 1.39°WFord — 55.05°N, 1.44°WFerntree — 42.88°S, 147.37°EFerntree — 43.00°S, 147.33°EFerntree — 42.92°S, 147.26°EFerntree — 42.78°S, 147.37°EFerntree — 42.58°S, 148.09°EFerntree — 42.78°S, 147.21°EZewan — 33.97°N, 75.00°EZewan — 34.09°N, 74.98°EKazan — 64.55°N, 43.98°EKazan — 57.50°N, 49.00°EKazan — 64.50°N, 44.00°EKazan — 64.40°N, 44.25°EKazan — 64.67°N, 49.33°EAngjie — 31.00°N, 89.00°EAngjie — 30.73°N, 88.47°EAngjie — 31.05°N, 88.80°EMulbring — 32.42°S, 150.12°EMulbring — 32.56°S, 151.16°EMulbring — 32.66°S, 151.24°EMulbring — 32.73°S, 151.54°EGrange Mudstone — 42.75°S, 147.18°EGrange Mudstone — 42.91°S, 147.27°EWest Arm — 41.18°S, 146.78°EVladivostok — 43.25°N, 133.15°EVladivostok — 44.38°N, 131.70°EVladivostok — 44.45°N, 131.40°EVladivostok — 44.34°N, 131.35°EKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 77.77°N, 14.70°EKapp Starostin — 76.50°N, 16.55°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EElephant Canyon — 38.50°N, 109.67°WMalbina — 42.75°S, 147.18°EMalbina — 43.01°S, 147.94°ESelong — 28.46°N, 86.17°ESelong — 28.38°N, 86.11°EWandrawandian — 35.35°S, 150.48°EWandrawandian — 34.88°S, 150.46°ERoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.37°N, 103.22°WChainman — 39.26°N, 113.78°WChainman — 39.28°N, 113.65°WLiutiagou — 46.85°N, 122.15°EOxtrack — 25.29°S, 150.27°ESkipping Ridge — 42.56°S, 148.08°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.00°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.20°E

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The named rock units Stenopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stenopora and its relatives

Permian

Where Stenopora and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,671 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 232 sites for Stenopora, 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

95 references

Each of the 274 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. 83 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 Stenopora

Source
GBIF
Credit
Ross, Carmine
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stenopora was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Lonsdale 1844