Lochmaeosmilia radiata

Lochmaeosmilia radiata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LochmaeosmiliaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous177–173 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170.9 Mya85.7 Mya177 Mya82 Mya

4 occurrences of Lochmaeosmilia radiata 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

4 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

2 formations

Pha De — 16.65°N, 98.62°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°E

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The named rock units Lochmaeosmilia radiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lochmaeosmilia radiata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Lochmaeosmilia radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lochmaeosmilia radiata, 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 4 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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Picture of Lochmaeosmilia radiata

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lochmaeosmilia radiata 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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What may have been alongside itLochmaeosmilia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamouroux 1821)