Diplocoenia

Diplocoenia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 55 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 55 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 33 of 55 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 55 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 55 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 55 occurrences183–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 8 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 10 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 8 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174.7 Mya83.6 Mya183 Mya64 Mya

55 occurrences of Diplocoenia 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

55 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

14 formations

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EFalaise de Bikfaya — 33.92°N, 35.71°EGrodziszcze Conglomerates — 49.83°N, 19.93°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°ESobral — 38.93°N, 9.05°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WWysoka Turnia Limestone — 49.25°N, 19.93°EXarquan — 31.75°N, 89.83°EYucunama — 17.55°N, 97.48°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EKatsirkhskaya — 43.60°N, 40.03°E

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The named rock units Diplocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplocoenia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Diplocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Diplocoenia, 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

29 references

Each of the 55 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. 17 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 content1

Picture of Diplocoenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplocoenia 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 itAcroporidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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