Cellaria rigida

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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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
10 occurrences of Cellaria rigida on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 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
- Polonez Cove Formation1
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Cellaria rigida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cellaria rigida and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cellaria rigida and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Cellaria contigua8 sites
- Porina gracilis8 sites
- Smittinella tatei7 sites
- Selenaria cupola6 sites
- Melicerita angustiloba5 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis4 sites
- Aechmella depressa4 sites
- Arachnopusia liversidgei4 sites
- Arachnopusia terminata4 sites
- Cellaria bicornis4 sites
- Cellaria myaringensis4 sites
- Cucullipora tetrasticha4 sites
- Macropora4 sites
- Ogiva concamerata4 sites
- Adeonellopsis obliqua3 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica3 sites
- Caleschara denticulata3 sites
- Catenicella3 sites
- Chiastosella conservata3 sites
- Cribrilina hebetata3 sites
- Didymosella larvalis3 sites
- Discopora vultur3 sites
- Escharella elongata3 sites
- Escharoides duplicata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cellaria rigida, 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
3 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria8
- Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)1
- Middle Miocene limestone from King Island, Tasmania1
Each of the 10 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 rigida
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCellaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacGillivray 1885