Dermosmilia trichotoma

No picture of Dermosmilia trichotoma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dermosmilia trichotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.9 Mya112.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Dermosmilia trichotoma 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

4 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

Hiraiga Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.73°N, 141.97°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°E

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

Dermosmilia trichotoma and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dermosmilia trichotoma and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dermosmilia trichotoma, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Dermosmilia trichotoma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dermosmilia trichotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dermosmilia trichotoma was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itDermosmilia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eguchi 1951