Trochopora

Trochopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LunulitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lunulitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lunulitidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Lunulitidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesOligocene115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100.5 Mya33.9 Mya115 Mya26 Mya

12 occurrences of Trochopora on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

12 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

5 formations

Stone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WRed Bluff — 30.68°N, 88.68°WRunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°E

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The named rock units Trochopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Trochopora and its relatives

Eocene

Where Trochopora and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trochopora, 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

3 references

Each of the 12 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 Trochopora

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Trochopora 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 itLunulitidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849