Caleschara
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalescharidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Caleschara on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Myaring Beds Formation · Glenelg Group2
- Red Bluff Tuff Formation1
- Dry Creek Sands Formation1
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The named rock units Caleschara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Caleschara and its relatives
MioceneWhere Caleschara and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Cucullipora tetrasticha7 sites
- Schizoporella submersa7 sites
- Adeonellopsis obliqua6 sites
- Cellaria contigua6 sites
- Aechmella depressa5 sites
- Bracebridgia emendata5 sites
- Cellaria myaringensis5 sites
- Porina gracilis5 sites
- Selenaria maculata5 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica4 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis4 sites
- Aechmella ambigua4 sites
- Foveolaria curdiensis4 sites
- Melicerita angustiloba4 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius4 sites
- Smittinella tatei4 sites
- Tretosina arcifera4 sites
- Adeonellopsis sulcata3 sites
- Arachnopusia liversidgei3 sites
- Arachnopusia terminata3 sites
- Caberea grandis3 sites
- Cellaria australis3 sites
- Cellaria rigida3 sites
- Chaperia cylindriformis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Caleschara, 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
5 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria7
- Victorian Lower Pliocene Bryozoa. Part 14
- Latest Paleocene to earliest Eocene bryozoans from Chatham Island, New Zealand1
- Some Pliocene Polyzoa from South Australia1
- Marine Pleistocene Invertebrates from near Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico1
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 Caleschara 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 Caleschara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caleschara was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCalescharidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacGillivray 1880