Axosmilia

Axosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AxosmiliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Axosmiliidae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 109 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 109 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 69 of 109 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 27 of 109 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 109 occurrencesLate Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 4 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 10 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 22 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 13 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 11 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 10 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168.2 Mya100.5 Mya176 Mya92 Mya

109 occurrences of Axosmilia 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

109 occurrences

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.

Found in

26 formations

Pteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EBadamu — 34.00°N, 57.00°EBadamu — 33.50°N, 58.00°ESobral — 38.97°N, 9.10°WSobral — 38.93°N, 9.05°WXarquan — 31.75°N, 89.83°EGoodland Limestone — 32.72°N, 97.37°WGoodland Limestone — 32.75°N, 97.78°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.12°WHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EParvadeh — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 56.83°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WWysoka Turnia Limestone — 49.23°N, 19.88°ELangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.62°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.92°N, 57.30°EPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°EComanche Peak Limestone — 30.85°N, 97.62°WEdwards Limestone — 31.52°N, 97.50°WSierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Axosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Axosmilia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Axosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

986 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Axosmilia, 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

42 references

Each of the 109 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. 30 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 Axosmilia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Axosmilia 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 itAxosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848