Dasmosmilia

Dasmosmilia is a genus of small corals in the family Caryophylliidae.

Dasmosmilia

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
CaryophylliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 17 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 18 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya129 ka87 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Dasmosmilia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

18 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

3 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 32.13°N, 87.40°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.99°W

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The named rock units Dasmosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dasmosmilia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

202 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dasmosmilia, 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

Each of the 18 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 Dasmosmilia

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itCaryophylliidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pourtalès 1880