Dermosmilia capitata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DermosmiliaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 137.05 Mya.
6 occurrences of Dermosmilia capitata 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Alcobaca Formation1
- Kamar-e-Mehdi Formation1
- Pteroceriano Formation1
- Sao Romao Formation1
- Abadia Formation1
- Oehrli Formation1
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The named rock units Dermosmilia capitata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dermosmilia capitata and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Dermosmilia capitata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Microsolena agariciformis3 sites
- Amphiastrea piriformis2 sites
- Dermosmilia simplex2 sites
- Lithophaga2 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2 sites
- Ovalastrea lobata2 sites
- Ovalastrea plicata2 sites
- Praeexogyra2 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata2 sites
- Stephanastrea ramulifera2 sites
- Stylina girodi2 sites
- Stylina stellata2 sites
- Trichites2 sites
- <Thrombolite>1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Actinastrea crassoramosa1 site
- Actinastrea matheyi1 site
- Actinastrea trochiformis1 site
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Adelocoenia radisensis1 site
- Amphiastrea1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Arcomytilus1 site
- Asteroida arrides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dermosmilia capitata, 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- Scleractinian corals from the upper Berriasian of central Europe and comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages1
- Jurassic corals of east-central Iran1
- Unpublished data1
- Vergleichende Faziesanalyse und Palökologie korallenreicher Verflachungsabfolgen des iberischen Oberjura [Comparative facies analysis and palaeoecology of coral-bearing shallowing-upwards successions from the Upper Jurassic of Iberia]1
- Facies, stratigraphy and paleogeographic analysis of Upper? Kimmeridgian to Upper Portlandian sediments in the environs of Arruda dos Vinhos, Estremadura, Portugal1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Dermosmilia capitata 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 Dermosmilia capitata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dermosmilia capitata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDermosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koby 1904)