Oculina wagneriana
No picture of Oculina wagneriana 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 Oculina wagneriana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OculinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Oculina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Oculinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Oculina wagneriana on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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 Oculina wagneriana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oculina wagneriana and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Oculina wagneriana and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Cucullaea transversa1 site
- Haimesiastraea conferta1 site
- Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Oculina wagneriana, 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- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
- The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species1
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
Media content0
No picture of Oculina wagneriana 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 Oculina wagneriana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oculina wagneriana 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.
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What may have been alongside itOculina through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vaughan 1900)