Celleporaria

Celleporaria is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Lepraliellidae.

Celleporaria

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
LepraliellidaePBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 26 of 102 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 102 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 102 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 102 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 102 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

102 occurrences of Celleporaria on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

102 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

32 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WMarianna Limestone — 31.07°N, 87.10°WMarianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WWeches — 31.76°N, 93.09°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.87°N, 14.33°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°ECrystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.71°N, 82.57°WPachuta Marl — 31.14°N, 87.94°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WWilliston Limestone — 29.77°N, 82.87°WCrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WLoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EGlenforslan — 34.09°S, 139.64°EGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WRed Bluff — 31.54°N, 87.52°W

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The named rock units Celleporaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Celleporaria and its relatives

Eocene

Where Celleporaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Celleporaria, 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

30 references

Each of the 102 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. 18 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 Celleporaria

Credit
Alison M. Fortunato
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Celleporaria was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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. Lamouroux 1821