Margarosmilia nova
No picture of Margarosmilia nova 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 Margarosmilia nova, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MargarosmiliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Margarophylliidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Margarosmilia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 215.38 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Margarosmilia nova 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Margarosmilia nova has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Margarosmilia nova and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Margarosmilia nova and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Rhopalodendron juliensis2 sites
- Alpinothalamia bavarica1 site
- Alpinothalamia slovenica1 site
- Amblysiphonella1 site
- Amblysiphonella loerentheyi1 site
- Bevocastria1 site
- Ceotinella mirunae1 site
- Collenella1 site
- Colospongia1 site
- Colospongia catenulata1 site
- Colospongia dubia1 site
- Colospongia ramosa1 site
- Connexia1 site
- Conophyllia hellenica1 site
- Coryphyllia elliptica1 site
- Coryphyllia regularis1 site
- Craspedosmilia graeca1 site
- Craticula gotlandica1 site
- Cryptocoelia1 site
- Cryptocoelia zitteli1 site
- Cycliphyllia1 site
- Diecithalamia polysiphonata1 site
- Epimastopora1 site
- Follicatena cautica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Margarosmilia nova, 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- Early Norian (Triassic) corals from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria, and the intra-Norian faunal turnover1
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia1
- Upper Triassic (Carnian-lowermost Norian) corals from the Pantokrator Limestone of Hydra (Greece)1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Margarosmilia nova 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 Margarosmilia nova, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Margarosmilia nova 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 itMargarosmilia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turnsek 1991