Cellepora

Cellepora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CelleporidaePBDB
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 228 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 31 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 23 of 31 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 19 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences233.6 Mya5.333 Mya242 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Cellepora 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

31 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

7 formations

Pinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EMt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°EPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WFutuna Limestone — 18.45°S, 178.48°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EGlenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°E

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The named rock units Cellepora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cellepora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cellepora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

686 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cellepora, 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

13 references

Each of the 31 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Cellepora

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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What may have been alongside itCelleporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1767