Microsmilia

No picture of Microsmilia 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 Microsmilia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryophylliinaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous160–158 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157.9 Mya93.9 Mya160 Mya88 Mya

12 occurrences of Microsmilia on record, most of them in the Late 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

12 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

7 formations

Korycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.25°N, 14.33°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EBila hora — 50.17°N, 14.17°EBila hora — 50.20°N, 14.32°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°EToiba — 31.38°N, 89.00°ETheoi Marls — 46.40°N, 0.06°W

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The named rock units Microsmilia 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.

Microsmilia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Microsmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

301 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Microsmilia, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 Microsmilia 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 Microsmilia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microsmilia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCaryophylliinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1888