Tetraporinus aequitabulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetraporinusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tetraporinus aequitabulata 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tetraporinus aequitabulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tetraporinus aequitabulata and its relatives
PermianWhere Tetraporinus aequitabulata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Multithecopora dendroidea2 sites
- Schwagerina2 sites
- Chusenophyllum chaohuense1 site
- Chusenophyllum pingdingshanense1 site
- Hayasakaia elegantula1 site
- Hayasakaia yunnanensis1 site
- Nankinella1 site
- Polythecalis chinensis1 site
- Polythecalis chinmenensis1 site
- Polythecalis huangi1 site
- Polythecalis irregularis1 site
- Polythecalis nankingensis1 site
- Polythecalis regularis1 site
- Polythecalis yangtzeensis1 site
- Protomichelinia microstoma1 site
- Tetraporinus anhuiensis1 site
- Yatsengia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tetraporinus aequitabulata, 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
2 referencesEach of the 3 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 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 itTetraporinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Huang 1932)