Dimorphocoenia

No picture of Dimorphocoenia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Dimorphocoenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 34 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 26 of 34 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 34 occurrencesLate Cretaceous160–157 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 6 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 8 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya85.7 Mya160 Mya70 Mya

34 occurrences of Dimorphocoenia 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

34 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

9 formations

Grodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.95°N, 19.85°EBalgarene — 43.13°N, 25.60°EBalgarene — 43.07°N, 25.47°ELlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EGrodziszcze Conglomerates — 49.83°N, 19.93°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°EDomvrena Marble — 38.35°N, 22.98°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WSierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Dimorphocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimorphocoenia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dimorphocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Dimorphocoenia, 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

24 references

Each of the 34 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Dimorphocoenia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Dimorphocoenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dimorphocoenia 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 itMontlivaltiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Fromentel 1857