Ceriostella martini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeriostellaPBDB
- 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 most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Ceriostella martini 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
16 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Ceriostella martini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ceriostella martini and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Ceriostella martini and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Minasteria shastensis5 sites
- Nevadoseris punctata5 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa4 sites
- Ceriostella parva4 sites
- Distichophyllia norica4 sites
- Ostrea4 sites
- Cinnabaria expansa3 sites
- Elysastraea3 sites
- Elysastraea profunda3 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa3 sites
- Pectinoidea3 sites
- Retiophyllia delicatula3 sites
- Retiophyllia fenestrata3 sites
- Retiophyllia norica3 sites
- Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) gibbosa3 sites
- Spongiomorpha tenuis3 sites
- Thamnasteria3 sites
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis2 sites
- Areaseris nevadaensis2 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa minor2 sites
- Avicularia cf. sayeri2 sites
- Cardinia2 sites
- Cassianella2 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ceriostella martini, 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- Upper Triassic corals from Nevada, western North America, and the implications for paleoecology and paleogeography12
- Taxonomic revisions of scleractinian corals2
- Platy coral patch reefs from eastern Panthalassa (Nevada, USA): Unique reef construction in the Late Triassic1
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America1
Each of the 16 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 martini 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 Ceriostella martini, 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 itCeriostella through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1927)