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Conopora

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2265521	https://www.gbif.org/species/2265521
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	4651	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=4651

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Hydrozoa : Anthoathecata : Stylasteridae : Conopora

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Hydrozoa : Stylasterina : Conopora

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
subphylum	Medusozoa
class	Hydrozoa	Owen 1843
order	Stylasterina
genus	Conopora	Moseley 1878

Scientific Name

Conopora Moseley, 1878

Name Published In

Moseley, Henry N. 1878. The Croonian Lecture: On the Structure of the Stylasteridae, a Family of the Hydroid Stony Corals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 168: 425-503.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Conopora	genus	belongs to Stylasterina	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.6 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Hydrozoa)

Vision

blind (based on Hydrozoa)

Diet

carnivore, suspension feeder (based on Hydrozoa)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Hydrozoa)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Conopora adeta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora arborescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora beebei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora bifacialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora cactos species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora candelabrum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora cardata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora crassisepta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora croca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora dura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora gigantea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora laevis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora mariae species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Conopora sola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora tenuiramus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora tetrastichopora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora unifacialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora unifascialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopora verrucosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2002	Conopora Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Cairns, S. D. (2015). Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian Region. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 28. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 207. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum: Paris. 361 + 1 cd-rom pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, S.D., 1983. Antarctic and subantarctic Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). In: Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XIII. Antarct. Res. Ser. 38 2: 61-164. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, S.D., 1991. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida). Mem. N.Z. oceanogr. Inst. 98 : 1-99. - via World Register of Marine Species

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bull. mar. Sci. 33(2): 427-508. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, S.D. (1992). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. Bull Mar. Sci. 49(1-2): 538-545. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, S.D., 1987. Conopora adeta, new species (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from Australia, the first known unattached stylasterid. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100(1): 141-146. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cnidaria Antarctic checklist - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, Stephen D., 1983: A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Description of the genera, pt. 1. Bulletin of Marine Science, vol. 33, no. 2. 427-508. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Grassé, Pierre-P., ed., 1993: null. Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie: Cnidaires, Hydrazoaires, Scyphozoaires, Cubozoaires, Cténaires, Tome 3, fascicule 2. 1-1117. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Philos. Trans., 169 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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