Cryptostomella aspinosa
No picture of Cryptostomella aspinosa 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 Cryptostomella aspinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CryptostomellaPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cryptostomella aspinosa 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 aspinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cryptostomella aspinosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cryptostomella aspinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Akatopora oviaviculata1 site
- Aspidostoma1 site
- Aspidostoma duoavicularia1 site
- Aspidostoma enchiridium1 site
- Aspidostoma gleddeni1 site
- Aspidostoma obesum1 site
- Aspidostoma titan1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Bubnoffiella ambigua1 site
- Cardabiella ovicellata1 site
- Cheethamia dividia1 site
- Cianotremella dimorpha1 site
- Cianotremella pilbara1 site
- Cryptostomella giralia1 site
- Discocavea1 site
- Ellisina1 site
- Eomacropora molesta1 site
- Filifascigera invenusta1 site
- Filisinella tenuiaviculata1 site
- Floridinella1 site
- Haigina distincta1 site
- Heterothoa repens1 site
- Idmonea alipes1 site
- Idmonea perforata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cryptostomella aspinosa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 aspinosa 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 Cryptostomella aspinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cryptostomella aspinosa 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 itCryptostomella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Håkansson et al. 2024