Heterosmilia
No picture of Heterosmilia 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 Heterosmilia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterocoeniidaePBDB
- 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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Heterosmilia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Emen Formation · Lovech Urgonian Group1
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The named rock units Heterosmilia 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.
Heterosmilia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Heterosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Astraeofungia1 site
- Aulastraeopora1 site
- Brachymeandra1 site
- Budaia travisensis1 site
- Calamophylliopsis compressa1 site
- Calamophylliopsis fotisalensis1 site
- Camptodocis1 site
- Carolastraeidae1 site
- Cladocoridae1 site
- Columastreidae1 site
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi1 site
- Comoseris1 site
- Complexastrea1 site
- Cryptocoenia1 site
- Diplogyra1 site
- Eocolumastrea1 site
- Eohydnophora1 site
- Eosiderastrea1 site
- Eugyra cotteaui1 site
- Eugyra pontica hydnophoroides1 site
- Haldonia1 site
- Heliopora1 site
- Holocystis1 site
- Latiastrea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heterosmilia, 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
2 references- Morphological diversity of Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Scleractinian corals, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain1
- Prolific development of pachythecaliines in Late Barremian, Bulgaria: coral taxonomy and sedimentary environment1
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
Media content0
No picture of Heterosmilia 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 Heterosmilia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterosmilia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeterocoeniidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kołodziej et al. 2012