Epismilia

Epismilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZardinophyllidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 136 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEocene196–191 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences164–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184.2 Mya48.07 Mya196 Mya35 Mya

16 occurrences of Epismilia 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

16 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

3 formations

Valfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°E"Lithiotid Horizon" — 45.92°N, 14.47°EMotianling — 31.95°N, 90.80°E

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The named rock units Epismilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epismilia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Epismilia, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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

Media content1

Picture of Epismilia

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

No 3D scan of Epismilia 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 itZardinophyllidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1861