Bracthelia arabica
No picture of Bracthelia arabica 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 Bracthelia arabica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachtheliaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- 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 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bracthelia arabica 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Bracthelia arabica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bracthelia arabica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Bracthelia arabica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Isastrea bernensis3 sites
- Actinastrea crassoramosa2 sites
- Columnocoenia safarratensis2 sites
- Kobyastraea lomontiana2 sites
- Latiastrea greppini2 sites
- Microphyllia brevivallis2 sites
- Microphyllia soemmeringii2 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata2 sites
- Adelocoenia parvistella1 site
- Adelocoenia wegeneri1 site
- Coenastraea abakkaynata1 site
- Coenastraea hyatti1 site
- Columnocoenia1 site
- Isastrea hemisphaerica1 site
- Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis1 site
- Montlivaltia cornutiformis1 site
- Montlivaltia frustriformis1 site
- Ovalastrea michelini1 site
- Ovalastrea proeminens1 site
- Stylina kachensis1 site
- Vallimeandropsis davidsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bracthelia arabica, 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
2 references- Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities2
- Oxfordian hermatypic corals from central Saudi Arabia2
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bracthelia arabica 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 Bracthelia arabica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bracthelia arabica 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrachthelia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (El-Asa'ad 1991)