Axosmilia kachensis

No picture of Axosmilia kachensis 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 Axosmilia kachensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AxosmiliaPBDB
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 most 6.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 168.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Axosmilia kachensis on record, most of them in the Middle 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

1 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

1 formation

Badamu — 34.00°N, 57.00°E

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The named rock units Axosmilia kachensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Axosmilia kachensis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Axosmilia kachensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Axosmilia kachensis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Axosmilia kachensis 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 Axosmilia kachensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Axosmilia kachensis 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 itAxosmilia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1900)