Cladocora jamaicaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CladocoraPBDB
- 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 least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya.
8 occurrences of Cladocora jamaicaensis 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
8 occurrences- Late Cretaceous63%
- Paleocene38%
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
6 formations
- Sobral Formation · Marambio Group1
- Santo Spirito Formation1
- Titanosarcolites Limestone Formation1
- Garra? Formation1
- Ocozocoautla Formation1
- Cardenas Formation1
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The named rock units Cladocora jamaicaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cladocora jamaicaensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cladocora jamaicaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Bryozoa2 sites
- Acervulina1 site
- Acicularia1 site
- Actinacis cognata1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Actinhelia elegans1 site
- Agathiphyllia bosniaca1 site
- Barysmilia trechmanni1 site
- Biradiolites angulosus1 site
- Cladocora barkii1 site
- Clypeina1 site
- Columastrea striata1 site
- Corallinaceae1 site
- Coscinophragma1 site
- Cyanobacteria1 site
- Cyathoseris catadupensis1 site
- Cymopolia1 site
- Dendrophyllia1 site
- Dendrophyllia candelabrum1 site
- Dictuophyllia conferticostata1 site
- Diplochaetetes1 site
- Durania1 site
- Favia gregoryi1 site
- Gaudryina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cladocora jamaicaensis, 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
7 references- Corals of the K/T-boundary: scleractinian corals of the suborders Astrocoeniina, Faviina, Rhipidogyrina and Amphiastraeina2
- Scleractinian corals from the Cardenas Formation (Maastrichtian), San Luis Potosi, Mexico1
- Corals from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Ocozocoautla Formation, Chiapas, Mexico1
- pers. comm.1
- Upper Cretaceous corals from the Ptoon Mountains (central Greece)1
- Fossil scleractinian corals from James Ross Basin, Antarctica1
- Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Cladocora jamaicaensis 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 Cladocora jamaicaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cladocora jamaicaensis 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 itCladocora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vaughan 1899)