Taeniopora

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SulcoreteporidaePBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
29 occurrences of Taeniopora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
29 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
9 formations
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group12
- Mahantango Formation · Hamilton Group6
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group3
- Cano Grande Formation · Rio Cachira Group2
- Oatka Formation · Marcellus Group2
- Cano del Oeste Formation · Rio Cachira Group1
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The named rock units Taeniopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Taeniopora and its relatives
DevonianWhere Taeniopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
331 taxa- Eldredgeops rana18 sites
- Platyceras16 sites
- Favosites15 sites
- Sulcoretepora15 sites
- Elita fimbriata14 sites
- Crinoidea13 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana13 sites
- Cypricardinia indenta12 sites
- Fenestella12 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus12 sites
- Pleurodictyum12 sites
- Rhipidomella12 sites
- Bryozoa11 sites
- Douvillina11 sites
- Heliophyllum halli11 sites
- Palaeoneilo11 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi11 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus11 sites
- Actinopteria10 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus10 sites
- Pentamerella10 sites
- Platyostoma lineata10 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides9 sites
- Camarotoechia9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Taeniopora, 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
6 references- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis10
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State6
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania6
- Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York3
- Paleoecologia, comunidades bentonicas y sucesion paleoambiental en el Grupo Rio Cachiri, Devonico, Sierra de Perija, Venezueal3
- Devonian Bryozoa from Colombia1
Each of the 29 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. 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 Taeniopora
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSulcoreteporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.