Puellina

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- CribrilinidaePBDB
- 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 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 774 ka.
34 occurrences of Puellina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
34 occurrences- Eocene15%
- Oligocene15%
- Miocene53%
- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene6%
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
5 formations
- Marianna Limestone Formation4
- Barton Beds Formation1
- Brèches rouges de Carboneras Formation1
- Red Bluff Formation1
- Harudi Formation1
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The named rock units Puellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Puellina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Puellina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
610 taxa- Escharella11 sites
- Reteporella11 sites
- Hornera9 sites
- Oncousoecia9 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa9 sites
- Umbonula9 sites
- Schizomavella8 sites
- Celleporaria7 sites
- Crisia7 sites
- Disporella7 sites
- Metrarabdotos7 sites
- Rhynchozoon monoceros7 sites
- Smittina cervicornis7 sites
- Adeonellopsis6 sites
- Cellaria fistulosa6 sites
- Escharoides6 sites
- Idmidronea6 sites
- Onychocella angulosa6 sites
- Pleuronea6 sites
- Schizotheca fissa6 sites
- Scrupocellaria6 sites
- Tervia6 sites
- Antropora5 sites
- Buffonellaria5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Puellina, 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
14 references- A bryozoan and foraminifera association from the Miocene of Podbrezice, south Moravia (Czech Republic): an environmental history6
- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)6
- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa5
- Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) froma volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)3
- Miocene Bryozoa from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part II: ‘Ascophoran’ Cheilostomata.3
- Bryozoans and serpuloideans in skeletobiont communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily: spatial utilisation and competitive interactions2
- Paleoecology of a Late Eocene Mobile Rockground Biota from North Otago, New Zealand2
- Tertiary bryozoa from Western Kachchh, Gujarat - A Review1
- The Cenozoic age of the supposed Jurassic crab Hebertides jurassica Guinot, De Angeli & Garassino, 2007 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)1
- New Middle Miocene Bryozoa from Gârbova de Sus (Romania) and their relationship to the sedimentary environment1
- A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology1
- Diversity, evolution and paleoecology of the Tertiary bryozoan assemblages of western Kachchh, Gujarat, India1
Each of the 34 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. 2 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 Puellina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Puellina 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 itCribrilinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jullien 1886