Chaperiidae
Chaperiidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalloporoideaPBDB
- 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 60 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
56 occurrences of Chaperiidae 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
56 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
9 formations
- Mt Brown "E" Limestone Formation4
- Dry Creek Sands Formation2
- Rapanui Formation2
- Kolymbia Formation1
- Glenaulin clay Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Myaring Beds Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Chaperiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chaperiidae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Chaperiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
654 taxa- Cellaria contigua9 sites
- Cellaria immersa9 sites
- Microporella ciliata9 sites
- Arachnopusia unicornis8 sites
- Melicerita angustiloba8 sites
- Porina gracilis8 sites
- Micropora coriacea7 sites
- Odontionella cyclops7 sites
- Reteporella7 sites
- Adeonellopsis obliqua6 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica6 sites
- Chaperia acanthina6 sites
- Chaperia multifida6 sites
- Cucullipora tetrasticha6 sites
- Holoporella hastigera6 sites
- Onychocella angulosa6 sites
- Patsyella flemingi6 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius6 sites
- Selenaria cupola6 sites
- Aechmella depressa5 sites
- Caleschara denticulata5 sites
- Calloporina decorata5 sites
- Cellaria myaringensis5 sites
- Celleporina5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Chaperiidae, 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
12 references- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand29
- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria8
- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)4
- Paleoecology of a Late Eocene Mobile Rockground Biota from North Otago, New Zealand4
- A new genus and species of Chaperiidae (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina)2
- Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) froma volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)2
- Some Pliocene Polyzoa from South Australia2
- Bryozoa of the Early Eocene Tumaio Limestone, Chatham Island, New Zealand1
- A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology1
- Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, Greece1
- Relation between currents and the growth of Paleocene reef-mounds1
- Cheilostome Byrozoa of Late Eocene age from Eua, Tonga1
Each of the 56 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
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No picture of Chaperiidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Chaperiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chaperiidae 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Chaperiidae”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalloporoidea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jullien 1888