Cheilostomatida

Cheilostomatida, also called Cheilostomata, is an order of Bryozoa in the class Gymnolaemata.

Cheilostomatida

Wilson44691 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
GymnolaemataPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bryozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Bryozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 10 of 14 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence61.66 Mya23.04 Mya67 Mya15 Mya

14 occurrences of Cheilostomatida on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

14 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

1 formation

Vaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.36°N, 118.94°WVaqueros — 34.56°N, 119.06°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.17°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°W

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The named rock units Cheilostomatida 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.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Cheilostomatida, 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

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Cheilostomatida

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Busk 1852