Glenarea cretacea
Tessier, Fernand · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlenareaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Meandrininae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.
6 occurrences of Glenarea cretacea on record, most of them in the Late 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous83%
- Paleocene17%
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
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The named rock units Glenarea cretacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glenarea cretacea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Glenarea cretacea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Actinacis martiniana1 site
- Actinacis remesi1 site
- Actinastrea bastidensis1 site
- Actinastrea ramosa1 site
- Agathelia asperella1 site
- Aspidastraea orientalis1 site
- Astrogyra edwardsi1 site
- Barysmilia iberica1 site
- Barysmilia irregularis1 site
- Columactinastraea pygmaea1 site
- Columactinastraea torallolensis1 site
- Columastrea dubia1 site
- Cunnolites1 site
- Dendrophyllia nodosa1 site
- Diploctenium lunatum1 site
- Goniastrea tenera1 site
- Goniopora imperatoris1 site
- Heliopora radiata1 site
- Monticulastraea insignis1 site
- Neocoenia lepida1 site
- Orbignygyra salisburgensis1 site
- Paraplacocoenia rotula1 site
- Polytremacis blainvillei1 site
- Stephanaxophyllia bicoronata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Glenarea cretacea, 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
4 references- Late Campanian-Maastrichtian corals from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region2
- Coraux crétacés de Bohême (Cénomanien supérieur; Turonien inférieur - Coniacien inférieur), République tchèque2
- The Scleractinian coral genus Glenarea (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin)1
- Note sur des polypiers du Senegal1
Each of the 6 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 Glenarea cretacea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Tessier, Fernand
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Glenarea cretacea 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 itGlenarea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocta 1887