Cellaria contigua

Cellaria contigua

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
CellariaPBDB
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 700 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 34.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 36.7 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.1–8.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34.6 Mya – 33.9 Mya37.3 Mya4.7 Mya

26 occurrences of Cellaria contigua on record. 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

26 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

5 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°EOtotara Limestone — 45.07°S, 170.92°EOtotara Limestone — 45.27°S, 170.86°ESandford Limestone — 37.65°S, 141.40°E

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The named rock units Cellaria contigua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

237 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cellaria contigua, 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

2 references

Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Cellaria contigua

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cellaria contigua 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacGillivray 1895