Scrupocellaria

Scrupocellaria is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Candidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Scrupocellaria

British Museum · Public Domain · 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
CandidaePBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 5 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 40 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 40 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences37.71 Mya774 ka41.8 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Scrupocellaria on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

40 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

14 formations

Marianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WMarianna Limestone — 31.07°N, 87.10°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.29°N, 82.75°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.71°N, 82.57°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WRed Bluff — 31.73°N, 88.20°WByram Marl — 31.69°N, 88.66°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WBumpnose — 30.77°N, 85.23°WBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°ECayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WNiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°W

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The named rock units Scrupocellaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scrupocellaria and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Scrupocellaria and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

561 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Scrupocellaria, 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

13 references

Each of the 40 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. 1 further reference is 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 Scrupocellaria

Credit
British Museum
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scrupocellaria 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.

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What may have been alongside itCandidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van Beneden 1845