Caryophyllia crassicosta

No picture of Caryophyllia crassicosta 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 Caryophyllia crassicosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryophylliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Caryophyllia
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

5 occurrences of Caryophyllia crassicosta on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 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

Grafenberg — 51.55°N, 6.60°EGrafenberg — 51.08°N, 6.32°E

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The named rock units Caryophyllia crassicosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caryophyllia crassicosta and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Caryophyllia crassicosta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

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

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 5 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 Caryophyllia crassicosta 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 Caryophyllia crassicosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Caryophyllia crassicosta 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 itCaryophyllia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Keferstein 1859)