Montlivaltia decipiens

Montlivaltia decipiens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontlivaltiaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Montlivaltia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170.9 Mya168.2 Mya175.2 Mya161 Mya

12 occurrences of Montlivaltia decipiens on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

4 formations

Baghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.67°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WParvadeh — 33.00°N, 56.50°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°E

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The named rock units Montlivaltia decipiens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Montlivaltia decipiens and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Montlivaltia decipiens and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Montlivaltia decipiens, 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

7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Montlivaltia decipiens

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Montlivaltia decipiens 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 itMontlivaltia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)