Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphocoeniopsisPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina 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- Early 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Dimorpharaea burulchiensis1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Hexactinellida1 site
- Lithophaga1 site
- Microsolena guttata1 site
- Mitrodendron modicum1 site
- Montlivaltia1 site
- Ostreidae1 site
- Parasynastraea cylindrica1 site
- Pleurophyllia schmidti1 site
- Pleurophyllia tobleri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina, 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- Scleractinian corals from the upper Berriasian of central Europe and comparison with contemporaneous coral assemblages1
- Berriasian Scleractinians of the Crimean Mountain Region1
- Monographie des Polypiers Crétacés de la Suisse [Monograph of cretaceous corals from Switzerland]1
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. 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.
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No picture of Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina 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 Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimorphocoeniopsis alpina was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itDimorphocoeniopsis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koby 1895)