Cerasina discoidalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CerasinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Cerasina discoidalis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
23 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cerasina discoidalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cerasina discoidalis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cerasina discoidalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Atrypa (Gotatrypa) hedei5 sites
- Erilevigatella euthylomata5 sites
- Gypidula akimiskiformis5 sites
- Pentameroides septentrionalis5 sites
- Septatrypa varians5 sites
- Parastrophinella4 sites
- Protanastrophia repanda4 sites
- Trimerella4 sites
- Clorinda parvolinguifera3 sites
- Eomegastrophia3 sites
- Leangella sp.3 sites
- Lissatrypa3 sites
- Meristina3 sites
- Mictospirifer3 sites
- Stegerhynchus3 sites
- Clorinda tumidula2 sites
- Eomegastrophia philomena2 sites
- Eoplectodonta2 sites
- Gypidulina2 sites
- Hesperorthis2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Whitfieldella sulcatina2 sites
- Atrypoidea (Atrypoidea)1 site
- Clorinda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cerasina discoidalis, 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
2 references- First Major Appearance of Brachiopod-Dominated Benthic Shelly Communities in the Reef Ecosystem during the Early Silurian16
- Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec7
Each of the 23 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 Cerasina discoidalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cerasina discoidalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCerasina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jin et al. 1993)