Stromatopora discoidea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StromatoporaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Stromatopora discoidea on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Stromatopora discoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stromatopora discoidea and its relatives
SilurianWhere Stromatopora discoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Anthozoa4 sites
- Brachiopoda4 sites
- Bryozoa4 sites
- Calymene4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Algae3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Cephalopoda3 sites
- Encrinurus punctatus3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus3 sites
- Heliolites3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
- Orthoceras3 sites
- Planalveolites3 sites
- Stromatoporoidea3 sites
- Trilobita3 sites
- Acervularia2 sites
- Ascoceras2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Cystiphyllum (Hedstroemophyllum)2 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata2 sites
- Dicoelosia verneuiliana2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Stromatopora discoidea, 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- Silurian Reefs of Gotland4
- Kompleksy rannesiluriyskikh tabulyatomorfnykh korallov zapadnogo Sayana i ikh ekologicheskiye osobennosti [Early Silurian tabulate coral assemblages of the western Sayan region and their ecologic characteristics]1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Stromatopora discoidea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stromatopora discoidea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stromatopora discoidea 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 itStromatopora through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lonsdale 1839)