Comoseridae

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrosoleninaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 177 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 1177 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 34 of 1177 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 18 of 1177 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 214 of 1177 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 628 of 1177 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 226 of 1177 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 56 of 1177 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1177 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 1177 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1177 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–231 Mya — about 4 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 5 occurrences224–217 Mya — about 7 occurrences217–210 Mya — about 8 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 9 occurrences202–195 Mya — about 8 occurrences195–188 Mya — about 6 occurrences188–181 Mya — about 5 occurrences181–174 Mya — about 4 occurrences174–166 Mya — about 110 occurrences166–159 Mya — about 121 occurrences159–152 Mya — about 472 occurrences152–145 Mya — about 102 occurrences145–138 Mya — about 46 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 46 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 36 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 95 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 30 occurrences109–102 Mya — about 5 occurrences102–95 Mya — about 39 occurrences95–87 Mya — about 8 occurrences87–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233.6 Mya56 Mya246 Mya30 Mya

1,177 occurrences of Comoseridae 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

1,177 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

134 formations

Oolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 56.83°EBaghamshah — 33.83°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 34.17°N, 56.67°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°ECalcaires siliceux de Dole — 47.13°N, 6.15°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.37°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.12°N, 10.10°EKorallenoolith — 52.21°N, 9.20°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 51.97°N, 9.62°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.62°EUrtabulak — 38.92°N, 64.85°EUrtabulak — 39.08°N, 64.25°EUrtabulak — 39.13°N, 65.43°EUrtabulak — 38.93°N, 64.48°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WAmaral — 38.95°N, 9.07°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WSchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WWhite Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.88°WSchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WSao Romao — 37.15°N, 7.93°WLalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WFontaine Salée — 42.85°N, 2.30°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.17°N, 20.98°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.23°N, 20.93°ETichilesti — 44.42°N, 28.48°EBadamu — 33.50°N, 58.00°EBadamu — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBadamu — 34.17°N, 56.67°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.87°N, 57.30°E

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The named rock units Comoseridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 110 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 598 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Comoseridae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Comoseridae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 403 sites for Comoseridae, and this reads 240 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

230 references

Each of the 1,177 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. 218 further references are not listed. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Comoseridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMicrosolenina through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.