Ceriostella variabilis

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

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 least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 215.38 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic240–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–237 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237 Mya227.3 Mya240 Mya214.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Ceriostella variabilis on record. 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

4 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

2 formations

Augusta — 39.61°N, 117.49°WLuning — 38.40°N, 118.00°W

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The named rock units Ceriostella variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ceriostella variabilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Ceriostella variabilis 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.

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 timeThe world it lived on

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