Cliona cretacea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClionaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cliona
Life habit
boringPBDB, for Cliona
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cliona
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya3 Mya

4 occurrences of Cliona cretacea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

Navesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WUpper Chalk — 50.60°N, 1.20°W

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The named rock units Cliona cretacea 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.

Cliona cretacea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cliona cretacea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cliona cretacea, 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 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 Cliona cretacea 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 Cliona cretacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cliona cretacea 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 itCliona through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Portlock 1843)