Cellaria

Cellaria is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Cellariidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Cellaria

Daniel J. Drew · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CellariidaePBDB
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 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 248 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 248 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 248 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 41 of 248 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 116 of 248 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 38 of 248 occurrencesPleistocene — about 32 of 248 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 10 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 12 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 27 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 22 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 20 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 31 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

248 occurrences of Cellaria 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

248 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

26 formations

Glenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°EWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°EWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.51°EMyaring Beds — 37.77°S, 141.24°EPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°EOtotara Limestone — 45.07°S, 170.92°EOtotara Limestone — 45.27°S, 170.86°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WTielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°ESandford Limestone — 37.65°S, 141.40°EMt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ESan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EKasseler Meeressand — 51.35°N, 9.38°ENiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°W

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The named rock units Cellaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 155 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cellaria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cellaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Cellaria, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

40 references

Each of the 248 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 Cellaria

Credit
Daniel J. Drew
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cellaria 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ellis and Solander 1786