Cryptosula

Cryptosula is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Cryptosulidae.

Cryptosula

British Museum · Public Domain · 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
CryptosulidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 6 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Cryptosula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

15 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

4 formations

Acredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Cryptosula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptosula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cryptosula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

587 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Cryptosula, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 Cryptosula

Credit
British Museum
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cryptosula 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCryptosulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1925