Parasmilia altavillensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParasmiliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Parasmilia
- 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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Parasmilia altavillensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Parasmilia altavillensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parasmilia altavillensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Parasmilia altavillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Parasmilia altavillensis, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- Polypiers Eocenes de la Loire-inferieure3
- A Bükkhegyseg Eocen Koralljai [Eocene corals from the Bükk Mountains]1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Parasmilia altavillensis 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 Parasmilia altavillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasmilia altavillensis 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 itParasmilia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1817)