Characodoma
Characodoma is a genus of bryozoans. Some species are known in the fossil record.
No picture of Characodoma 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 Characodoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CleidochasmatidaePBDB
- 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 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Characodoma 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
11 occurrences- Miocene9%
- Pliocene45%
- Pleistocene27%
- Holocene18%
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
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group4
- Moin Formation · Limon Group3
- Gatun Formation1
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
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The named rock units Characodoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Characodoma and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Characodoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Hippoporella gorgonensis4 sites
- Cupuladria biporosa3 sites
- Cupuladria canariensis3 sites
- Discoporella3 sites
- Parasmittina3 sites
- Schizoporella cornuta3 sites
- Agaricia agaricites2 sites
- Antillocyathus gracilis2 sites
- Celleporaria2 sites
- Cigclisula2 sites
- Coleopora2 sites
- Colpophyllia natans2 sites
- Crepidacantha2 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata2 sites
- Dichocoenia stokesi2 sites
- Diploria2 sites
- Drepanophora2 sites
- Eusmilia fastigiata2 sites
- Exechonella2 sites
- Hippaliosina2 sites
- Hippoporina2 sites
- Mamillopora2 sites
- Montastrea cavernosa2 sites
- Oxysmilia pliocenica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Characodoma, 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- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama9
- Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of Florida2
Each of the 11 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Characodoma 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 Characodoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Characodoma 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Characodoma”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCleidochasmatidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maplestone 1900