Distichomeandra spinosa

Distichomeandra spinosa

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 215.38 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Triassic227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227.8 Mya214.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Distichomeandra spinosa on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

1 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.

Distichomeandra spinosa and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Distichomeandra spinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Distichomeandra spinosa, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Distichomeandra spinosa

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

No 3D scan of Distichomeandra spinosa 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDistichomeandra through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuif 1976