Heliopora bennetti

Heliopora bennetti

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HelioporaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Helioporacea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Helioporacea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Helioporacea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helioporacea

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Heliopora bennetti on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

Coamo — 18.33°N, 66.32°W

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The named rock units Heliopora bennetti 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.

Heliopora bennetti and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Heliopora bennetti and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Heliopora bennetti, so there is nothing to compare it with.

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. 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 Heliopora bennetti

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heliopora bennetti 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wells 1934