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Cellaria

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1009129	https://www.gbif.org/species/1009129
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	25792	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=25792

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Cellariidae : Cellaria

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomata : Cellariidae : Cellaria

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
-	Polyzoa
phylum	Bryozoa	Ehrenberg 1831
class	Gymnolaemata	Allman 1856
order	Cheilostomata	Busk 1859
suborder	Neocheilostomina	d'Hondt 1985
infraorder	Flustrina	Smitt 1868
superfamily	Cellarioidea	Fleming 1828
family	Cellariidae	Hincks 1880
genus	Cellaria	Ellis & Solander 1786

Scientific Name

Cellaria Ellis & Solander, 1786

Name Published In

Ellis, John & Daniel C. Solander. 1786. The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes, collected from the various parts of the globe. Benjamin White and Son, London.: i-xii; 1-206; pls. 1-63.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cellaria	genus	belongs to Cellariidae	stated without evidence	Canu and Bassler, 1935
Cellaria	genus	belongs to Cellariidae	stated with evidence	Cheetham, 1972
Cellaria	genus	belongs to Cellariidae	stated without evidence	Lee et al., 1997
Cellaria	genus	belongs to Cheilostomata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Cellaria	genus	belongs to Cellariidae	stated without evidence	Schmidt, 2003
Cellaria	genus	belongs to Cellariidae	stated with evidence	Berning, 2006
Cellaria	genus	belongs to Cellariidae	stated without evidence	Gordon and Taylor, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

11 (31%)

First Recorded Appearance

59.2 - 48.6 Ma
Paleogene

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Cheilostomata)

Vision

blind (based on Gymnolaemata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cheilostomata)

Reproduction

oviparous, brooding (based on Cheilostomata)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Cellariidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cellaria adamantina ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	34.3 Ma Eocene	34.3 Ma Eocene
Cellaria anceps species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria atlantida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria attenuata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Cellaria aurorae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria australis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria bafouri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria bassleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria biaperta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria bicornis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria bicuspidata ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cellaria bifaciata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria boninensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria brasiliensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria cactiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria candeana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria caulini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria clavata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria complanata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria contigua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		26	34.3 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria cookae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria coronata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria crassicollis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria cucullata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria demissa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria dennanti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria depressa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	59.2 Ma Paleocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Cellaria diffusa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria dimorpha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria diversa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria dubia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria elementaria ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Cellaria elongata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria elongatoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria enormis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria extentamuralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria farciminoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria filiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria fissulifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria fistulosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		27	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria flexiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria gigas ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cellaria gracilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria grandis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria granulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria harmelini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria humilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria immersa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria inaequalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria inarticulata ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cellaria inclusa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria incula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria japonica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria lata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria limbata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria lingua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria louisorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria malvinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria mandibulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria megalodonta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria melillensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Cellaria minus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Cellaria minuscula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria mitrata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria moniliorata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria myaringensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria nodosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria normani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria novanglia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria obliquidens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria oraneae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria orbicularia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria ornata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria palatum ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cellaria paradoxa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria parafistulosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria perampla ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria perexigua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	59.2 Ma Paleocene	59.2 Ma Paleocene
Cellaria pilosa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria praelonga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria punctata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria quadrilatera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria ramosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria rigida species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria riograndensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria robusta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Cellaria sagittula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria salicornioides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria scoresbyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria semiluna species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria setigera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Cellaria sinuosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria sobrinoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria squamosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria stachi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria strictocella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria subsetigera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria subtropicalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria tecta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria tenuirostris species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria triangulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria tridenticulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria tumida ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria variabilis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Cellaria veleronis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cellaria veteripontis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cellaria wasinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Cellariaeforma Rogick, 1956	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Cellariidae : *Cellariaeforma*
Salicornia de Blainville, 1830	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Cellariidae : *Salicornia*
Salicornaria Schweigger, 1819	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Cellariidae : *Salicornaria*
Neocellariaeforma d'Hondt, 1985	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Cellariidae : *Neocellariaeforma*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1786	Cellaria Ellis and Solander
1935	Cellaria Canu and Bassler
1936	Cellaria Stach
1952	Cellaria Brown
1956	Cellaria Brown
1958	Cellaria Brown
1972	Cellaria Cheetham
1992	Cellaria Squires and Demetrion p. 24

Year	Name and Author
1997	Cellaria Lee et al.
1999	Cellaria Gordon and Taylor
1999	Cellaria Wienrich p. 274
2000	Cellaria Pouyet
2002	Cellaria Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Cellaria Schmidt
2006	Cellaria Berning p. 43
2015	Cellaria Gordon and Taylor

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Canu F., Bassler R. S. (1935) New species of Tertiary Cheilostome Bryozoa from Victoria, Australia, Smithsonian miscellaneous collections 93 9, 1-54

Stach L. W. (1936) South Australian Cainozoic Bryozoa. Part 1, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 60, 127-136

Brown D. A. (1952) The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand, 1-405

Brown D. A. (1956) Some Pliocene Polyzoa from South Australia, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 104, 593-611 doi:10.1080/00222935608655864

Brown D. A. (1958) Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria 20

Cheetham A. H. (1972) Cheilostome Byrozoa of Late Eocene age from Eua, Tonga, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 640-E

Squires R. L., Demetrion R. A. (1992) Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 434, 1-55

Lee D. E., Scholz J., et al (1997) Paleoecology of a Late Eocene Mobile Rockground Biota from North Otago, New Zealand, Palaios 12 6, 568-581 doi:10.2307/3515412

Gordon D. P., Taylor P. D. (1999) Latest Paleocene to earliest Eocene bryozoans from Chatham Island, New Zealand, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London: Geology Series 55 1, 1-45

Wienrich G. (1999) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden 2, 188-384

Pouyet S. (2000) Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne), Revista Española de Paleontología 15 2, 181-202

Schmidt R. (2003) Eocene bryozoa of the St. Vincent Basin, south Australia – taxonomy, biogeography and palaeoenvironments, 1-343

Berning B. (2006) The cheilostome bryozoan fauna from the Late Miocene of Niebla (Guadalquivir Basin, SW Spain): environmental and biogeographic implications, Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 90, 7-156

Gordon D. P., Taylor P. D. (2015) Bryozoa of the Early Eocene Tumaio Limestone, Chatham Island, New Zealand, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1-88 doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.991905

Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 41: 47-114. - via World Register of Marine Species

Ellis, J.; Solander, D. (1786). The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, collected from various parts of the Globe. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. 4.(Benjamin White & Son: London): 1-206, pls 1-63. - via World Register of Marine Species

Hansson, H. (2004). North East Atlantic Taxa (NEAT): Nematoda. Internet pdf Ed. Aug 1998. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bryozoan homepage - via World Register of Marine Species

Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 325-333 - via World Register of Marine Species

Obst, Matthias (2008) Svenska Bryozoa 080305. Excelfil. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Ryland, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 949 Cellaria Ellis & Solander, 1786 (Bryozoa): use of the Plenary Powers to stabilize the generic name and three species.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 27, 231-233 (1971) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Nat. Hist. Zooph. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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