Cryptostomella
No picture of Cryptostomella 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 Cryptostomella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cryptostomella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous75%
- Paleocene25%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cryptostomella 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.
Cryptostomella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cryptostomella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Ellisina3 sites
- Aspidostoma2 sites
- Berenicea2 sites
- Cheethamia dividia2 sites
- Cianotremella dimorpha2 sites
- Filisinella tenuiaviculata2 sites
- Haigina distincta2 sites
- Heterothoa repens2 sites
- Isocardabiella clavata2 sites
- Melychocella cretacea2 sites
- Paraflustrella berningi2 sites
- Paraflustrella lacunosa2 sites
- Peedeesella mckinneyi2 sites
- Plagioecia2 sites
- Praelacazella wetherelli2 sites
- Stichomicropora australis2 sites
- Unicavea2 sites
- Voigtopora giraliensis2 sites
- Wilbertopora grandis2 sites
- Aechmella1 site
- Akatopora oviaviculata1 site
- Allantopora1 site
- Anornithopora1 site
- Aplousina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cryptostomella, 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
2 references- Bryozoa from the Maastrichtian Korojon Formation, Western Australia3
- Functional morphology and biofacies distribution of cheilostome Bryozoa in the Danian Stage (Paleocene)of southern Scandinavia1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cryptostomella 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 Cryptostomella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cryptostomella 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLepraliellidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1953