Dimorpharaea expansa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorpharaeaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Comoseridae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Comoseridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Comoseridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dimorpharaea expansa 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Dimorpharaea expansa and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Dimorpharaea expansa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Actinaraea granulata1 site
- Adelocoenia maxima1 site
- Calamophylliopsis etalloni1 site
- Calamophylliopsis kyrvakarensis1 site
- Calamoseris disputabilis1 site
- Cladophyllia1 site
- Comoseris minima1 site
- Dimorpharaea lineata1 site
- Fungiastraea pseudoarachnoides1 site
- Isastrea1 site
- Microsolena agariciformis1 site
- Microsolena cavernosa1 site
- Microsolena foliosa1 site
- Microsolena fromenteli1 site
- Microsolena thurmanni1 site
- Microsolena tuberosa1 site
- Ovalastrea michelini1 site
- Stylina1 site
- Stylosmilia1 site
- Thamnoseris1 site
- Thecosmilia cartieri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimorpharaea expansa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris2
- Late Jurassic Scleractinia of the western Uzbekistan1
- Biostratigrafiya verkhneyurskikh otlozheniy Malogo Kavkaza (Azerbaydzhana) po skleraktiniyam [Upper Jurassic biostratigraphy of the Lesser Caucasus (Azerbaidzhan) based on scleractinians]1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dimorpharaea expansa 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 Dimorpharaea expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDimorpharaea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Solomko 1888