Semieschara
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychocellidaePBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Semieschara on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Semieschara and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Semieschara and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Elea2 sites
- Meliceritites2 sites
- Onychocella2 sites
- Biflustra regularis1 site
- Callopora1 site
- Discoflustrellaria1 site
- Escharifora1 site
- Flustrella1 site
- Grammanotosoecia1 site
- Laterotubigera1 site
- Membranipora1 site
- Multicavea1 site
- Petalopora1 site
- Porina1 site
- Reteporidra1 site
- Semicrecis tubulosa1 site
- Smittipora1 site
- Unicytis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Semieschara, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Semieschara
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Semieschara 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOnychocellidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1852