Cellaria
Searched as Cellaria rigida perampla. The Paleobiology Database treats Cellaria as the accepted name.
Cellaria is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Cellariidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Daniel J. Drew · 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
- CellariidaePBDB
- 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 31 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cellaria 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
3 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.
Cellaria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cellaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,180 taxa- Reteporella22 sites
- Hornera20 sites
- Microporella ciliata20 sites
- Porina gracilis20 sites
- Crisia19 sites
- Cellepora18 sites
- Disporella17 sites
- Metrarabdotos17 sites
- Smittina cervicornis17 sites
- Onychocella angulosa16 sites
- Myriapora truncata15 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa15 sites
- Ybselosoecia15 sites
- Escharella14 sites
- Rhynchozoon monoceros14 sites
- Schizotheca fissa14 sites
- Smittinella tatei14 sites
- Tervia14 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata13 sites
- Hornera frondiculata13 sites
- Ogiva concamerata13 sites
- Pleuronea13 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis12 sites
- Hippopleurifera sedgwicki12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Cellaria, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
2 references- Report on a collection of fossils from the Lakes Entrance shaft, Gippsland, Victoria2
- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cellaria
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Daniel J. Drew
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cellaria 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cellaria”
- 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 itCellariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ellis and Solander 1786