Cryptocoenia antiqua

Cryptocoenia antiqua

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya100.5 Mya126.4 Mya93.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Cryptocoenia antiqua on record, most of them in the Early 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

2 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

2 formations

Zapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WBranderfleck — 47.63°N, 11.67°E

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The named rock units Cryptocoenia antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cryptocoenia antiqua and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cryptocoenia antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Cryptocoenia antiqua, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Cryptocoenia antiqua

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cryptocoenia antiqua 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 itCryptocoenia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850