Ceriostella

No picture of Ceriostella 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 Ceriostella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PamiroseriidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 151 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 6 of 46 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 39 of 46 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 46 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 46 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesLate Cretaceous245–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–234 Mya — about 4 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences228–223 Mya — about 11 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 13 occurrences217–212 Mya — about 7 occurrences212–206 Mya — about 4 occurrences206–201 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence237 Mya85.7 Mya245 Mya80 Mya

46 occurrences of Ceriostella on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

46 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

10 formations

Luning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.12°WLuning — 38.35°N, 117.94°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.15°WNehenta — 55.17°N, 131.80°WAugusta — 39.61°N, 117.49°WAugusta Mountain — 39.61°N, 117.49°WHosselkus — 40.80°N, 122.12°WHosselkus — 40.93°N, 122.13°WMartin Bridge — 44.95°N, 117.33°WMartin Bridge — 45.32°N, 117.31°WKamishak — 59.78°N, 154.50°WDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.69°EHochmoos — 47.58°N, 13.52°EOsobb — 40.01°N, 117.57°W

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The named rock units Ceriostella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceriostella and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Ceriostella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Ceriostella, 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

8 references

Each of the 46 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 Ceriostella 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 Ceriostella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceriostella 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 itPamiroseriidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roniewicz and Stanley 1998