Cladangia crassoramosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CladangiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Cladangia crassoramosa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Cladangia crassoramosa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cladangia crassoramosa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Cladocora multicaulis3 sites
- Culicia parasita3 sites
- Dendrophyllia amica3 sites
- Acropora exarata2 sites
- Astrangia manthelanensis2 sites
- Balanophyllia italica2 sites
- Cladangia semispherica2 sites
- Cryptangia reptans2 sites
- Paracyathus turonensis2 sites
- Balanophyllia varians1 site
- Cladangia aquitaniensis1 site
- Cladangia semispherica semispherica1 site
- Cryptangia woodii michelini1 site
- Dendrophyllia cornigera1 site
- Dendrophyllia digitalis1 site
- Dendrophyllia longaeva1 site
- Dendrophyllia taurinensis1 site
- Goniopora turonensis1 site
- Heliastrea saucatsensis1 site
- Palaeoplesiastraea turonensis1 site
- Siderastrea1 site
- Siderastrea miocenica italica1 site
- Siderastrea miocenica regularis1 site
- Sphenotrochus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cladangia crassoramosa, 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
4 references- Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène3
- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]2
- Structural and faunal evolution of Chattian-Miocene reefs and corals in western France and the northeastern Atlantic Ocean1
- Les Madréporaires miocènes de la vallée du Rhône1
Each of the 7 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. 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 Cladangia crassoramosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cladangia crassoramosa 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 itCladangia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelin 1847)