Ceriostella parva
No picture of Ceriostella parva was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceriostella parva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeriostellaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Ceriostella parva on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
8 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ceriostella parva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ceriostella parva and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Ceriostella parva and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Ceriostella martini4 sites
- Distichophyllia norica4 sites
- Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) gibbosa4 sites
- Elysastraea profunda3 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa3 sites
- Kuhnastraea decussata3 sites
- Pectinoidea3 sites
- Retiophyllia delicatula3 sites
- Retiophyllia fenestrata3 sites
- Retiophyllia norica3 sites
- Thamnasteria3 sites
- Thamnasteria smithi3 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa2 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa minor2 sites
- Avicularia cf. sayeri2 sites
- Cardinia2 sites
- Cassianella2 sites
- Cinnabaria expansa2 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)2 sites
- Cuifia marmorea2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Elysastraea2 sites
- Encrinus2 sites
- Fanthalamia astoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ceriostella parva, 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- Upper Triassic corals from Nevada, western North America, and the implications for paleoecology and paleogeography3
- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America3
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America2
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Ceriostella parva was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceriostella parva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceriostella parva 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCeriostella through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1927)