Monothecalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WaagenophyllidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Monothecalis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
6 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Monothecalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Monothecalis and its relatives
PermianWhere Monothecalis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Allotropiophyllum heteroseptatum1 site
- Amblysiphonella bancaoensis1 site
- Amblysiphonella omanica1 site
- Amblysiphonella socialis1 site
- Archaeolithoporella hidensis1 site
- Atractyliopsis1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Chaetetidae1 site
- Climacammina1 site
- Colospongia americana1 site
- Colospongia maxima1 site
- Cystomichelinia crassitheca1 site
- Dunbarula1 site
- Epimastopora1 site
- Fenestellidae1 site
- Girtyocoelia gracilis1 site
- Hayasakaia1 site
- Hayasakaia elegantula1 site
- Hayasakaia guangxiensis1 site
- Hayasakaia guankouensis1 site
- Hayasakaia raricystata1 site
- Imbricatocoelia elongata1 site
- Imperiella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Monothecalis, 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- Late late Carboniferous and earliest Permian rugose corals from Jiangxi3
- Middle Permian corals from Laibin County, Guangxi2
- Upper Permian (Murghabian) rugose corals from Oman (Ba'id area, Saih Hatat): Community structure and contributions to reefbuilding processes1
Each of the 6 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 Monothecalis 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 Monothecalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Monothecalis 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 itWaagenophyllidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wu and Zhao 1983