Dimorphastrea sulcosa
No picture of Dimorphastrea sulcosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dimorphastrea sulcosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dimorphastrea sulcosa on record, most of them in the Late 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 sulcosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dimorphastrea sulcosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Ammobaculites2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Ceratobulimina2 sites
- Columactinastraea formosa2 sites
- Columastrea striata2 sites
- Cytherella2 sites
- Daviesina2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Dictyopsella2 sites
- Exogyra2 sites
- Fusinus2 sites
- Gaudryina2 sites
- Gavelinella2 sites
- Globotruncana lapparenti2 sites
- Hexaglauconia2 sites
- Hoeglundina2 sites
- Homalopoma2 sites
- Lagena globosa2 sites
- Mauritsina2 sites
- Montlivaltia2 sites
- Parasmilia2 sites
- Pinna decussata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimorphastrea sulcosa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Dimorphastrea sulcosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dimorphastrea sulcosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimorphastrea sulcosa 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854