Chaperia

Chaperia is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Chaperiidae.

Chaperia

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
ChaperiidaePBDB
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 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 34.6 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 36.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 37 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10.0–8.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.7–7.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.0–3.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.7–2.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.5–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences34.6 Mya1.63 Mya37.4 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Chaperia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

37 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

Mt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°EOtotara Limestone — 45.07°S, 170.92°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ERapanui — 39.86°S, 174.77°EKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EGlenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°EMyaring Beds — 37.77°S, 141.24°E

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The named rock units Chaperia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chaperia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Chaperia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Chaperia, 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

5 references

Each of the 37 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 Chaperia

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

No 3D scan of Chaperia 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itChaperiidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jullien 1881