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Porata ✝
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| Rank | order (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Porifera : Calcarea : Porata | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 466 - 450 Ma Ordovician | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 212 - 206 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | stationary, attached (based on Calcarea) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | blind (based on Calcarea) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Calcarea) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Calcarea) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | B. Senowbari-Daryan and G. D. Stanley. 1998. Neoguadalupia oregonensis new species: Reappearance of a Permian sponge genus in the Upper Triassic Wallowa terrane, Oregon. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):221-224 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Angullongiidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 6 | 461 Ma Middle Ordovician | 450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician | |
| Ascosymplegmatidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Cystauletidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Polytholosiidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 15 | 228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | 212 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |
| Sphaeroverticillitidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Stromatocoeliidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Alaskaspongia ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 461 Ma Middle Ordovician | 461 Ma Middle Ordovician | |
| Pseudoporefieldia ✝ genus | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 466 Ma Middle Ordovician | 450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1962 | Porata Seilacher |
| 1986 | Porata Rigby and Potter |
| 1988 | Porata Rigby et al. |
| 1998 | Porata Senowbari-Daryan and Stanley |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
