Dimorphastrea excavata

Dimorphastrea excavata

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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 least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous140–138 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya100.5 Mya140 Mya93 Mya

4 occurrences of Dimorphastrea excavata 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

2 formations

Oehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.98°EFontaine Salée — 42.85°N, 2.30°E

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The named rock units Dimorphastrea excavata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimorphastrea excavata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dimorphastrea excavata, 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

3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dimorphastrea excavata

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dimorphastrea excavata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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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