Heterocoenia inflexa

No picture of Heterocoenia inflexa 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 Heterocoenia inflexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterocoeniaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Life habit
colonialPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137.05 Mya125.77 Mya139.6 Mya119.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Heterocoenia inflexa on record, most of them in the Early 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

3 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

Oehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°EBetlis — 47.24°N, 9.37°E

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The named rock units Heterocoenia inflexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Heterocoenia inflexa and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Heterocoenia inflexa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heterocoenia inflexa, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Heterocoenia inflexa 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 Heterocoenia inflexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heterocoenia inflexa 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 itHeterocoenia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eichwald 1865)