Aulacera
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Aulaceridae
- Order: Aulacera
Visual Description
Museum and database records for Aulacera under this taxonomic path typically depict fossil stromatoporoid material labeled at species level (e.g., Aulacera nodulosa, Aulacera plummeri). Across the sampled images, specimens are shown as encrusting/laminar to nodular carbonate forms (fossilized sponge skeleton), photographed as intact blocks or specimen surfaces that emphasize overall growth form rather than soft tissue. (See examples in the image dataset for Aulacera occurrences.)[1]
Nomenclature and Usage
- Aulacera* is recognized in GBIF as an accepted name with the authorship citation “Plummer, 1843”.[2]
Ecology and Interactions (Database-compiled)
Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) lists records for Aulacera plummeri under an interaction type categorized as “hasParasite”, indicating the presence of parasite-associated records in compiled occurrence/interaction datasets (fossil taxa treated analogously to extant interaction terms by the database).[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Aulaceridae / Aulacera constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aulacera Plummer, 1843. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/3251647. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- ↑ Aulacera. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Aulacera. Accessed 2026-07-10.