Heliocoenia stellata

No picture of Heliocoenia stellata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heliocoenia stellata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeliocoeniaPBDB
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 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya157.9 Mya168.7 Mya154.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Heliocoenia stellata on record, most of them in the Middle 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

2 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

1 formation

Jaisalmer — 26.95°N, 70.88°E

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The named rock units Heliocoenia stellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliocoenia stellata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Heliocoenia stellata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heliocoenia stellata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Heliocoenia stellata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heliocoenia stellata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heliocoenia stellata 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 itHeliocoenia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roniewicz 1966