Cribrilaria radiata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CribrilariaPBDB
- 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 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
32 occurrences of Cribrilaria radiata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
32 occurrences- Oligocene22%
- Miocene38%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene25%
- Holocene9%
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
9 formations
- Moin Formation · Limon Group3
- Marianna Limestone Formation3
- Kolymbia Formation1
- Red Bluff Formation1
- Byram Marl Formation1
- Waccamaw Formation1
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The named rock units Cribrilaria radiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cribrilaria radiata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cribrilaria radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
548 taxa- Microporella ciliata9 sites
- Onychocella angulosa9 sites
- Escharina vulgaris7 sites
- Lichenopora7 sites
- Plagioecia7 sites
- Schizotheca fissa7 sites
- Celleporaria6 sites
- Crassimarginatella bobiesi6 sites
- Escharoides coccinea6 sites
- Figularia figularis6 sites
- Smittina6 sites
- Therenia montenati6 sites
- Antropora5 sites
- Bactridium ellipticum5 sites
- Biflustra regularis5 sites
- Calloporina decorata5 sites
- Calpensia nobilis5 sites
- Cellaria5 sites
- Cellaria contigua5 sites
- Cellaria fistulosa5 sites
- Celleporina5 sites
- Ceriopora palmata5 sites
- Crisia5 sites
- Didymosella larvalis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Cribrilaria radiata, 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
14 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria5
- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa5
- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)4
- Bryozoans and serpuloideans in skeletobiont communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily: spatial utilisation and competitive interactions3
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama3
- Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of Florida3
- Bryozoaires des milieux récifaux miocénes du sillon sud-rifain au Maroc2
- The cheilostome bryozoan fauna from the Late Miocene of Niebla (Guadalquivir Basin, SW Spain): environmental and biogeographic implications1
- Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, Greece1
- Messinian coral reefs of western Orania, Algeria1
- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]1
- Contribution a l'Etude des depots Tertiaires dans la region de Saint-Hillaire-de-Clisson1
Each of the 32 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Cribrilaria radiata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cribrilaria radiata 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 itCribrilaria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moll 1803)