Confusaforma

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterocoeniidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Life habit
colonialPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya93.9 Mya144 Mya89 Mya

8 occurrences of Confusaforma 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

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

5 formations

Korycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Confusaforma 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.

Confusaforma and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Confusaforma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Confusaforma, 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

6 references

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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Confusaforma 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHeterocoeniidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loeser 1987