Unicavea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LichenoporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.
4 occurrences of Unicavea 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
4 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
2 formations
- Korojon Formation3
- Glen Rose Limestone Formation · Trinity Group1
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The named rock units Unicavea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Unicavea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Unicavea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Cheethamia dividia3 sites
- Cianotremella dimorpha3 sites
- Heterothoa repens3 sites
- Isocardabiella clavata3 sites
- Melychocella cretacea3 sites
- Paraflustrella berningi3 sites
- Paraflustrella lacunosa3 sites
- Peedeesella mckinneyi3 sites
- Plagioecia3 sites
- Praelacazella wetherelli3 sites
- Stichomicropora australis3 sites
- Aspidostoma2 sites
- Berenicea2 sites
- Cardabiella ovicellata2 sites
- Cianotremella pilbara2 sites
- Cryptostomella giralia2 sites
- Discocavea2 sites
- Ellisina2 sites
- Eomacropora molesta2 sites
- Filisinella tenuiaviculata2 sites
- Haigina distincta2 sites
- Korojonella kenozooidea2 sites
- Marginaria2 sites
- Monoceratopora transversa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Unicavea, 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
2 references- Bryozoa from the Maastrichtian Korojon Formation, Western Australia3
- Early Cretaceous cyclostome bryozoans from the early to middle Albian of the Glen Rose and Walnut formations of Texas, USA1
Each of the 4 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 Unicavea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Unicavea 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.
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What may have been alongside itLichenoporidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1853)