Cellaria australis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CellariaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.
18 occurrences of Cellaria australis 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
- Dry Creek Sands Formation2
- Glenaulin clay Formation · Glenelg Group2
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Sandford Limestone Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Cellaria australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cellaria australis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cellaria australis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
186 taxa- Cellaria contigua7 sites
- Selenaria maculata7 sites
- Sertella porcellana7 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis6 sites
- Caberea grandis6 sites
- Porina gracilis6 sites
- Hippoporina burlingtoniensis5 sites
- Hornera foliacea5 sites
- Ogiva concamerata5 sites
- Smittinella tatei5 sites
- Adeonellopsis australis4 sites
- Biflustra regularis4 sites
- Cellaria variabilis4 sites
- Didymosella larvalis4 sites
- Foveolaria curdiensis4 sites
- Foveolaria thomasi4 sites
- Idmonea australis4 sites
- Lanceopora obliqua4 sites
- Palmicellaria ornata4 sites
- Palmicellaria quadrifrons4 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius4 sites
- Tetraplaria australis4 sites
- Thalamoporella gracilis4 sites
- Vincularia gigantea4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Cellaria australis, 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
4 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria7
- South Australian Cainozoic Bryozoa. Part 15
- Victorian Lower Pliocene Bryozoa. Part 14
- Some Pliocene Polyzoa from South Australia2
Each of the 18 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 content0
No picture of Cellaria australis 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 Cellaria australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cellaria australis 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 itCellaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacGillivray 1880)