Tholopora

No picture of Tholopora 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 Tholopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CerioporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEocene127–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 4 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya56 Mya127 Mya47 Mya

14 occurrences of Tholopora on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

14 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

9 formations

Sandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°EBarre a Orbitolines — 44.57°N, 5.17°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.12°N, 5.37°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°E

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The named rock units Tholopora 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.

Tholopora and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tholopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Tholopora, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Tholopora 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 Tholopora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tholopora 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 itCerioporidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gregory 1909