Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis

Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis

Orbigny (d') · 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
Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia)PBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 64 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 56 of 64 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 64 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 64 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–158 Mya — about 6 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 16 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 16 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 9 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya113.2 Mya170 Mya99 Mya

64 occurrences of Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

64 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

12 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.52°EKorallenoolith — 52.37°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°ECabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EKorond — 33.92°N, 57.33°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°EKamar-e-Mahdi — 33.33°N, 56.67°EPeral — 37.15°N, 7.60°WYucunama — 17.55°N, 97.48°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

623 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis, 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

20 references

Each of the 64 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. 8 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 Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Orbigny (d')
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHeliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Étallon 1859)