Meandrophyllia cariacoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeandrophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
2 occurrences of Meandrophyllia cariacoensis 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
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Meandrophyllia cariacoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meandrophyllia cariacoensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Meandrophyllia cariacoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
2 taxaThe Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Meandrophyllia cariacoensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- A fauna from the lower Cretaceous Barranquin Formation of Venezuela1
- Cretaceous, tertiary, and recent corals, a sponge, and an alga from Venezuela1
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. 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
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No picture of Meandrophyllia cariacoensis 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 Meandrophyllia cariacoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meandrophyllia cariacoensis 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 itMeandrophyllia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wells 1944