Dimorphastrea bellula

Dimorphastrea bellula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DimorphastreaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 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 occurrences116–115 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 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121.9 Mya109.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Dimorphastrea bellula 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

3 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.

Dimorphastrea bellula and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dimorphastrea bellula and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimorphastrea bellula, 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

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Dimorphastrea bellula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itDimorphastrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850