Chaperia acanthina

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- ChaperiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Chaperia acanthina on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene6%
- Miocene10%
- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene33%
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
- Myaring Beds Formation · Glenelg Group1
- Rapanui Formation1
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The named rock units Chaperia acanthina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chaperia acanthina and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Chaperia acanthina and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Arachnopusia unicornis6 sites
- Microporella ciliata4 sites
- Steginoporella neozelanica4 sites
- Calloporina diadema3 sites
- Cellaria immersa3 sites
- Chaperia multifida3 sites
- Chaperia rubida3 sites
- Chiastosella watersi3 sites
- Crassimarginatella sileni3 sites
- Crepidacantha poissonii crinispina3 sites
- Electra ongleyi3 sites
- Escharoides angela3 sites
- Exochella conjuncta3 sites
- Exochella jellyae3 sites
- Fenestrulina malusi3 sites
- Figularia spinea3 sites
- Hippomenella bituberosa3 sites
- Hippoporina3 sites
- Holoporella hastigera3 sites
- Macropora grandis3 sites
- Micropora coriacea3 sites
- Odontionella cyclops3 sites
- Patsyella flemingi3 sites
- Petraliella firmata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Chaperia acanthina, 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- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand5
- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Chaperia acanthina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chaperia acanthina 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 itChaperia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamouroux 1824)