Adelocoenia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StylinidaePBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 85 million years on record.
The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
282 occurrences of Adelocoenia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
282 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
36 formations
- Korallenoolith Formation9
- Slivnitsa Formation9
- Antalo Formation9
- Baghamshah Formation7
- Oolithe corallienne de Pagnoz Formation5
- Tataouine Formation4
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The named rock units Adelocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 178 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Adelocoenia and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Adelocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1,398 taxa- Microsolena agariciformis36 sites
- Isastrea34 sites
- Actinaraea32 sites
- Comoseris29 sites
- Stylina29 sites
- Microsolena27 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis26 sites
- Thamnasteria concinna26 sites
- Thamnasteria25 sites
- Thecosmilia24 sites
- Fungiastraea23 sites
- Dimorpharaea22 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata21 sites
- Comoseris minima20 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma18 sites
- Actinastrea crassoramosa17 sites
- Calamophylliopsis stockesi16 sites
- Montlivaltia16 sites
- Fungiastraea arachnoides15 sites
- Stylosmilia15 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum14 sites
- Goniocora pumila14 sites
- Dendraraea13 sites
- Enallhelia13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 152 sites for Adelocoenia, 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
62 references- Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris26
- Les Madreporaires du Jurassic superieur de la bordure des Monts de Sainte-Croix, Pologne [Upper Jurassic Scleractinia from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland]23
- New biological zonation of a late Jurassic coral reef complex (Lorraine, France)19
- Les scléractiniaires du Jurassique supérieur de la Dobrogea centrale, Roumanie18
- Jurassic corals of east-central Iran17
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia15
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]13
- Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities9
- The Mesozoic scleractinian genus Adelocoenia (Stylinidae) and its Jurassic species8
- Kimmeridgian-Valanginian reef corals from the Moesian Platform from Bulgaria8
- Die Korallenfauna des Korallenooliths (Oxfordium, Oberjura, NW-Deutschland): Zusammensetzung, Stratigraphie und regionale Verbreitung8
- Vergleichende Faziesanalyse und Palökologie korallenreicher Verflachungsabfolgen des iberischen Oberjura [Comparative facies analysis and palaeoecology of coral-bearing shallowing-upwards successions from the Upper Jurassic of Iberia]7
Each of the 282 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. 50 further references are 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 Adelocoenia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Diego Delso
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Adelocoenia 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.
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What may have been alongside itStylinidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849