Thamnopora

Thamnopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachyporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 188 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 653 occurrencesSilurian — about 27 of 653 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 612 of 653 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 653 occurrencesPermian — about 13 of 653 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 653 occurrences449–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–436 Mya — about 7 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 8 occurrences429–422 Mya — about 11 occurrences422–416 Mya — about 12 occurrences416–409 Mya — about 42 occurrences409–402 Mya — about 29 occurrences402–395 Mya — about 34 occurrences395–389 Mya — about 67 occurrences389–382 Mya — about 268 occurrences382–375 Mya — about 97 occurrences375–369 Mya — about 50 occurrences369–362 Mya — about 9 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 4 occurrences295–288 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–275 Mya — about 5 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence443.1 Mya254.14 Mya449 Mya248 Mya

653 occurrences of Thamnopora 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

653 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

192 formations

Combe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.37°EKowala — 50.93°N, 20.53°EKowala — 50.63°N, 21.37°EKowala — 50.75°N, 20.78°EKowala — 50.88°N, 20.57°EPortilla — 42.85°N, 1.84°EPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.65°WPortilla — 42.88°N, 5.12°EPortilla — 42.82°N, 5.22°EPortilla — 43.00°N, 6.17°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.85°WPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WDewal — 33.75°N, 68.03°EDewal — 33.87°N, 67.93°EDewal — 33.62°N, 67.90°EDewal — 33.73°N, 68.08°ESkajit — 67.69°N, 161.18°WSkajit — 67.61°N, 161.07°WSkajit — 67.37°N, 161.88°WSkajit — 67.47°N, 160.88°WSkajit — 67.88°N, 148.87°WSkajit — 68.05°N, 148.18°WSkajit — 68.29°N, 147.17°WSkajit — 68.18°N, 146.13°WSkajit — 68.19°N, 146.23°WSkajit — 67.62°N, 162.28°WSkajit — 67.40°N, 161.67°WBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°ESadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°ECandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.13°WMartin — 34.88°N, 112.07°WMartin — 34.45°N, 111.84°WBan Pap — 21.18°N, 105.07°EBan Pap — 21.43°N, 104.12°ESafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°ESafonovski — 56.13°N, 85.97°EOnondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WKürten — 50.50°N, 6.53°EKürten — 50.53°N, 6.58°ESanta Lucia — 42.89°N, 2.09°ESanta Lucia — 42.80°N, 5.98°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.68°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.43°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.28°WSanta Lucia — 42.97°N, 6.20°WSanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.10°WMoniello — 43.58°N, 5.97°WMoniello — 43.63°N, 5.78°WHa Lang — 22.68°N, 106.67°ESchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.73°ESchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.76°ECawak — 33.98°N, 68.05°ECawak — 33.92°N, 68.00°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EBadragha — 34.37°N, 68.33°EBadragha — 34.35°N, 68.38°EBadragha — 34.35°N, 68.35°EBadragha — 34.30°N, 68.12°EBadragha — 34.23°N, 68.00°ELo Son — 20.98°N, 106.57°EZarubino — 55.60°N, 85.70°EZarubino — 55.45°N, 85.52°EWandagee — 23.75°S, 114.46°EWandagee — 23.75°S, 114.45°EWandagee — 23.75°S, 114.40°ELazhuglung — 34.77°N, 81.31°E

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The named rock units Thamnopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 168 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 110 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thamnopora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Thamnopora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 345 sites for Thamnopora, and this reads 240 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

173 references

Each of the 653 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. 161 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 content2

Picture of Thamnopora

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steininger 1831