Brachymeandra facilis
No picture of Brachymeandra facilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Brachymeandra facilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachymeandraPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Brachymeandra facilis 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 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Brachymeandra facilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachymeandra facilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Brachymeandra facilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Acrosmilia1 site
- Actinastrea cribellum1 site
- Brachymeandra silex1 site
- Brachyphyllia circulus1 site
- Confusaforma weyeri1 site
- Cryptocoenia regularis1 site
- Dendraraea mammelonata1 site
- Glenarea poctai1 site
- Heliocoenia vadosa1 site
- Heliopora radiata1 site
- Hydnophora oppenheimi1 site
- Meandrastrea pseudomeandrina1 site
- Mesomorpha minima1 site
- Microphyllia maeandrinoides1 site
- Microsmilia geinitzi1 site
- Nefophyllia1 site
- Negoporites spissus1 site
- Negoporites textilis1 site
- Placoseris eturbensis1 site
- Pleurocora reptans1 site
- Siderastrea splendida1 site
- Synastrea parallela1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Brachymeandra facilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Brachymeandra facilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Brachymeandra facilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachymeandra facilis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrachymeandra through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pocta 1887)