Ctenostomata

Ctenostomata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GymnolaemataPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bryozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Bryozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 483 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Cambrian — about 0 of 130 occurrencesOrdovician — about 22 of 130 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 130 occurrencesDevonian — about 26 of 130 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 19 of 130 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 37 of 130 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 130 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 130 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 130 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 130 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 130 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 130 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 130 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 130 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 130 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 130 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 130 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 130 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 130 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 130 occurrences497–480 Mya — about 5 occurrences480–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–447 Mya — about 10 occurrences447–430 Mya — about 7 occurrences430–414 Mya — about 3 occurrences414–397 Mya — about 3 occurrences397–381 Mya — about 23 occurrences348–331 Mya — about 16 occurrences331–315 Mya — about 3 occurrences298–281 Mya — about 37 occurrences182–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences483.8 Mya129 ka497 Mya0 Mya

130 occurrences of Ctenostomata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

130 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

39 formations

Wreford — 39.69°N, 96.64°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.33°N, 96.53°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.75°WWreford — 38.22°N, 96.43°WWreford — 38.41°N, 96.56°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.57°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.43°WWreford — 38.97°N, 96.86°WWreford — 38.66°N, 96.27°WWreford — 37.00°N, 96.00°WWreford — 38.04°N, 96.42°WWreford — 37.81°N, 96.54°WWreford — 37.31°N, 96.70°WWreford — 39.03°N, 96.80°WWreford — 39.84°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.15°N, 96.56°WWreford — 38.17°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.60°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.87°N, 96.22°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSkaly — 50.88°N, 21.03°EWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.07°WTaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°ERedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WOregonia — 39.44°N, 84.98°WOregonia — 39.33°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 39.03°N, 83.85°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WYehlan — 22.00°N, 108.00°EHueco — 32.37°N, 106.88°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°EHighgate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WPortland Limestone — 50.52°N, 2.43°W

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The named rock units Ctenostomata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenostomata and its relatives

Permian

Where Ctenostomata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Ctenostomata, 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

43 references

Each of the 130 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. 31 further references are not listed. 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 Ctenostomata

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ctenostomata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGymnolaemata through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Busk 1852