Culicia

Culicia is a genus of corals belonging to the family Rhizangiidae.

Culicia

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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 least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 3 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 26 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–243 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya243 ka

26 occurrences of Culicia 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

26 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

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WFalun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WSables à Mactres — 44.71°N, 0.54°W

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The named rock units Culicia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Culicia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Culicia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

425 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Culicia, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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 Culicia

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Culicia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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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. Dana 1846