Cladangia
Searched as Cladangia semispherica semispherica. The Paleobiology Database treats Cladangia as the accepted name.

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhizangiidaePBDB
- 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 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cladangia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- 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 and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cladangia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
301 taxa- Acropora exarata5 sites
- Culicia parasita5 sites
- Dendrophyllia amica4 sites
- Porites4 sites
- Porites collegniana4 sites
- Turbinaria cyathiformis4 sites
- Acropora lavandulina3 sites
- Aquitanastraea piveteaui3 sites
- Astrangia manthelanensis3 sites
- Balanophyllia italica3 sites
- Cladocora multicaulis3 sites
- Diploastrea3 sites
- Diploastrea diversiformis3 sites
- Favites3 sites
- Favites neglecta3 sites
- Goniopora3 sites
- Heliastrea3 sites
- Lithophyllia3 sites
- Paracyathus turonensis3 sites
- Pocillopora madreporacea3 sites
- Siderastrea miocenica3 sites
- Stylophora raristella3 sites
- Tarbellastraea3 sites
- Tarbellastraea ellisiana3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cladangia, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cladangia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cladangia 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 itRhizangiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851