Cryptostomida

Cryptostomida is an order of fossil bryozoans that lived from the Ordovician to the Permian.

Heminematopora gaetula Ernst, Jiménez-Sánchez & Baidder, 2015, a relative of Cryptostomida — not Cryptostomida itself

Not Cryptostomida. This is Heminematopora gaetula Ernst, Jiménez-Sánchez & Baidder, 2015, a relative.

via GBIF · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
PalaeostomataPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 188 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 286 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 286 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 286 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 4 of 286 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 281 of 286 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 286 occurrences462–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–326 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences319–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–291 Mya — about 55 occurrences291–284 Mya — about 30 occurrences284–276 Mya — about 25 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 36 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 75 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 48 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 11 occurrences443.1 Mya254.14 Mya462 Mya248 Mya

286 occurrences of Cryptostomida on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

286 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

66 formations

Wreford — 39.69°N, 96.64°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.51°WWreford — 39.47°N, 96.41°WWreford — 38.70°N, 96.50°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.75°WWreford — 38.22°N, 96.43°WWreford — 38.41°N, 96.56°WWreford — 38.09°N, 96.39°WWreford — 39.48°N, 96.07°WWreford — 39.06°N, 96.57°WWreford — 37.81°N, 96.54°WWreford — 38.04°N, 96.42°WWreford — 38.14°N, 96.59°WWreford — 38.66°N, 96.27°WWreford — 37.00°N, 96.00°WWreford — 38.36°N, 96.75°WWreford — 38.13°N, 96.54°WWreford — 39.03°N, 96.80°WWreford — 39.84°N, 96.47°WWreford — 38.15°N, 96.56°WWreford — 38.18°N, 96.47°WWreford — 39.33°N, 96.52°WWreford — 38.27°N, 96.38°WWreford — 38.87°N, 96.24°WWreford — 38.60°N, 96.51°WChandalaz — 43.30°N, 132.30°EChandalaz — 43.20°N, 131.50°EChandalaz — 44.60°N, 133.35°EChandalaz — 43.50°N, 132.50°EChandalaz — 43.28°N, 133.40°EChandalaz — 43.25°N, 132.00°EChandalaz — 44.00°N, 133.00°EChandalaz — 43.12°N, 131.50°EChandalaz — 43.04°N, 133.14°EChandalaz — 44.75°N, 131.20°EChandalaz — 43.72°N, 132.66°EChandalaz — 43.44°N, 132.41°EKazan — 65.81°N, 43.60°EKazan — 66.05°N, 43.50°EKazan — 57.98°N, 49.11°EKazan — 57.50°N, 49.00°EKazan — 67.70°N, 45.65°EKazan — 57.42°N, 48.90°EKazan — 57.60°N, 49.13°EKazan — 64.55°N, 43.98°EKazan — 64.67°N, 49.33°EKazan — 56.24°N, 51.28°EKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EBell Canyon — 31.90°N, 104.82°WLyudyanza — 42.79°N, 132.86°ELyudyanza — 43.00°N, 133.00°ELyudyanza — 43.49°N, 132.32°ELyudyanza — 43.85°N, 132.98°ELyudyanza — 42.93°N, 132.76°ELyudyanza — 43.28°N, 133.41°ELyudyanza — 45.13°N, 133.84°EDelaware Mountain — 31.37°N, 104.56°WDelaware Mountain — 31.29°N, 104.54°WBarabash — 43.25°N, 133.15°EBarabash — 43.18°N, 131.55°EBarabash — 43.20°N, 131.50°EBarabash — 44.75°N, 131.37°EBarabash — 44.42°N, 131.33°EOmolon — 67.50°N, 154.00°EOmolon — 67.48°N, 154.07°EOmolon — 67.45°N, 153.48°EOmolon — 64.45°N, 157.10°ECapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 31.87°N, 104.90°WVladivostok — 44.38°N, 131.70°EVladivostok — 44.45°N, 131.40°EVladivostok — 44.34°N, 131.35°EPhosphoria — 42.66°N, 111.14°WPhosphoria — 42.64°N, 111.15°WPhosphoria — 42.71°N, 111.19°WLiutiagou — 46.61°N, 122.53°ELiutiagou — 46.85°N, 122.15°ESkinner Ranch — 30.20°N, 103.43°WOsakhta — 48.09°N, 132.50°EGerster — 41.25°N, 115.20°WGerster — 41.30°N, 114.90°WGerster — 41.50°N, 115.20°WGerster — 41.60°N, 114.60°WCathedral Mountain — 30.25°N, 103.37°WCathedral Mountain — 30.30°N, 103.30°WRoad Canyon — 30.22°N, 103.44°WRoad Canyon — 30.34°N, 103.25°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.16°WMission Argillite — 48.62°N, 118.05°WRat Buri — 7.38°N, 99.30°ERat Buri — 13.62°N, 99.74°EZewan — 33.97°N, 75.00°EZewan — 34.09°N, 74.98°EMiseryfjellet — 74.37°N, 19.08°EMiseryfjellet — 74.51°N, 19.02°EKaibab — 36.06°N, 112.21°WKaibab — 36.21°N, 112.09°WKaibab — 36.24°N, 112.35°WMaqam — 24.75°N, 55.83°E

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The named rock units Cryptostomida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptostomida and its relatives

Permian

Where Cryptostomida and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 232 sites for Cryptostomida, 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

59 references

Each of the 286 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. 47 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 Heminematopora gaetula Ernst, Jiménez-Sánchez & Baidder, 2015

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cryptostomida 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

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 itPalaeostomata through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vine 1884