Margarosmilia

Margarosmilia

Martindale, Rowan · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MargarophylliidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Margarophylliidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 136 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 136 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 122 of 136 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 136 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 136 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 136 occurrencesLate Jurassic249–246 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences246–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 6 occurrences239–235 Mya — about 23 occurrences235–232 Mya — about 28 occurrences232–229 Mya — about 14 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 9 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 7 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 7 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 7 occurrences215–212 Mya — about 7 occurrences212–208 Mya — about 7 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 7 occurrences205–201 Mya — about 9 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–188 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya154.8 Mya249 Mya147 Mya

136 occurrences of Margarosmilia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

136 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

27 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.13°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°EBortepa — 37.50°N, 74.50°EBortepa — 37.47°N, 74.73°EBortepa — 37.33°N, 75.00°EBortepa — 39.27°N, 73.45°EZlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°EZlambach — 47.55°N, 13.65°EZlambach — 47.75°N, 13.50°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EMisfah — 23.17°N, 57.06°EMisfah — 22.92°N, 57.67°EMailonggang — 29.85°N, 91.63°ERiganpeicuo — 32.71°N, 84.29°EChambara — 10.85°S, 76.17°WChambara — 10.85°S, 75.98°WWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°ESchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°EChitistone — 61.51°N, 142.76°WDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.69°EHeiligkreuz/ Dürrestein — 46.65°N, 12.20°EVeterlin — 48.50°N, 17.33°EShaimak — 37.50°N, 74.50°EChichkautek — 37.78°N, 74.25°EWettersteinkalk — 47.40°N, 11.38°EKang Pla — 17.58°N, 100.50°EVolzeia Beds — 44.55°N, 135.57°EBabulu — 8.51°S, 126.01°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°EDachstein — 46.42°N, 13.80°ESándorhegy — 46.98°N, 17.88°EBianyang — 25.73°N, 106.57°E

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The named rock units Margarosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Margarosmilia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Margarosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,000 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Margarosmilia, 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

48 references

Each of the 136 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 Margarosmilia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Martindale, Rowan
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Margarosmilia 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. Volz 1896