Cupuladriidae
Cupuladriidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalloporoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
241 occurrences of Cupuladriidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
241 occurrences- Eocene5%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene49%
- Pliocene31%
- Pleistocene15%
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
24 formations
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group50
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group21
- Gatun Formation19
- Moin Formation · Limon Group17
- Acredale Formation6
- Pirabas Formation6
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The named rock units Cupuladriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 86 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cupuladriidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cupuladriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,573 taxa- Elphidium52 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata49 sites
- Reussirella48 sites
- Lentigodentalium47 sites
- Varicorbula gibba46 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus45 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita44 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella44 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei43 sites
- Nonion43 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata42 sites
- Dentalina konincki41 sites
- Globulina gibba41 sites
- Limopsis41 sites
- Textularia gramen41 sites
- Lenticulina (Lenticulina)40 sites
- Dentalium (Pseudantilis)39 sites
- Saccella westendorpi39 sites
- Dentalina38 sites
- Martinottiella communis38 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima37 sites
- Guttulina problema37 sites
- Lenticulina (Robulus)35 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima35 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Cupuladriidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
28 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama107
- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda65
- Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American Isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the north-central Caribbean (Dominican Republic)10
- Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain7
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia6
- Note on Miocene Bryozoa from northwestern Florida5
- Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies5
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)4
- Koralen van het Nederlandsche Tertiair [Corals from the Tertiary of the Netherlands]4
- Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas3
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire3
- Tertiary bryozoa from Western Kachchh, Gujarat - A Review2
Each of the 241 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. 16 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 Cupuladriidae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cupuladriidae 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.
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 itCalloporoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lagaaij 1952