Escharina vulgaris

Berning & Wisshak (2024) · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- EscharinaPBDB
- 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 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
10 occurrences of Escharina vulgaris on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
10 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pliocene30%
- Pleistocene20%
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
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The named rock units Escharina vulgaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Escharina vulgaris and its relatives
MioceneWhere Escharina vulgaris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
352 taxa- Onychocella angulosa8 sites
- Schizotheca fissa8 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata7 sites
- Microporella ciliata7 sites
- Calloporina decorata6 sites
- Ceriopora palmata6 sites
- Crassimarginatella bobiesi6 sites
- Escharoides coccinea6 sites
- Schizoporella longirostris6 sites
- Therenia montenati6 sites
- Turbicellepora coronopus6 sites
- Calpensia nobilis5 sites
- Chaperia annulus5 sites
- Costazia costazi5 sites
- Cryptosula pallasiana5 sites
- Escharina dutertrei5 sites
- Escharoides megalota5 sites
- Figularia figularis5 sites
- Hippopleurifera surgens5 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa5 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata4 sites
- Cellaria fistulosa4 sites
- Celleporina4 sites
- Chorizopora brongniartii4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Escharina vulgaris, 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
6 references- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)5
- Spectacular preservation of seagrasses and seagrass-associated communities from the Pliocene of Rhodes, Greece1
- Celleporid (bryozoan) thickets from the Upper Pliocene of the island of Rhodes, Greece1
- Messinian coral reefs of western Orania, Algeria1
- Bryozoaires des milieux récifaux miocénes du sillon sud-rifain au Maroc1
- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]1
Each of the 10 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. 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 Escharina vulgaris
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Berning & Wisshak (2024)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Escharina vulgaris 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 itEscharina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moll 1803)