Cerioporidae

Cerioporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cyclostomatida.

Cerioporidae

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
CerioporinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 290 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 96 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 96 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 96 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 96 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 34 of 96 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 96 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 96 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 96 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 96 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 96 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 96 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–213 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences213–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–122 Mya — about 9 occurrences122–112 Mya — about 17 occurrences112–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–91 Mya — about 7 occurrences91–81 Mya — about 11 occurrences81–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–61 Mya — about 10 occurrences61–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 12 occurrences10–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences293.52 Mya2.58 Mya305 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Cerioporidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

96 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

27 formations

Gehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°ESandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.52°N, 97.17°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.12°N, 6.81°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.97°N, 6.44°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.12°N, 5.37°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.25°N, 5.62°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.12°N, 5.37°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.20°N, 5.48°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°ETetyukhinskaya — 44.56°N, 135.51°ECalcaire à Spatangues — 48.18°N, 4.47°EVions — 46.02°N, 5.95°EBarre a Orbitolines — 44.57°N, 5.17°EBaucina — 37.82°N, 12.80°EKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WLithothamnium Limestone — 48.47°N, 16.30°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°ECopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WRhodes — 36.25°N, 28.17°E

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The named rock units Cerioporidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cerioporidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cerioporidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,442 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Cerioporidae, 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

46 references

Each of the 96 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. 34 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 Cerioporidae

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Alison M. Fortunato
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CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cerioporidae 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Busk 1859