Sertella porcellana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReteporellaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Sertella porcellana 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sertella porcellana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sertella porcellana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sertella porcellana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Cellaria australis7 sites
- Hornera foliacea5 sites
- Selenaria maculata5 sites
- Adeonellopsis australis4 sites
- Cellaria variabilis4 sites
- Idmonea australis4 sites
- Thalamoporella gracilis4 sites
- Caberea grandis3 sites
- Conescharellina angulopora3 sites
- Iodictyum phoeniceum3 sites
- Lanceopora obliqua3 sites
- Porina gracilis3 sites
- Tubucellaria cereoides3 sites
- Arachnopusia acanthoceros2 sites
- Caleschara denticulata2 sites
- Conescharellina crassa2 sites
- Hornera robusta2 sites
- Idmonea macgillivrayi2 sites
- Thalamoporella howchini2 sites
- Tubucellaria hirsuta2 sites
- Adeonellopsis obliqua1 site
- Adeonellopsis sulcata1 site
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis1 site
- Arachnopusia terminata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Sertella porcellana, 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
3 references- South Australian Cainozoic Bryozoa. Part 15
- Victorian Lower Pliocene Bryozoa. Part 12
- Some Pliocene Polyzoa from South Australia1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Sertella porcellana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sertella porcellana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sertella porcellana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itReteporella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (MacGillivray 1869)