Dimorphastrea heteromorpha

Dimorphastrea heteromorpha

Bonneau · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 10 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous158–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154.8 Mya137.05 Mya158.4 Mya132.1 Mya

12 occurrences of Dimorphastrea heteromorpha 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

12 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

5 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.13°WMiamou — 34.97°N, 24.93°E

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The named rock units Dimorphastrea heteromorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimorphastrea heteromorpha and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Dimorphastrea heteromorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

419 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dimorphastrea heteromorpha, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Dimorphastrea heteromorpha

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bonneau
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1858)