Parasmilia centralis

Parasmilia centralis

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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 least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 19 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 22 occurrencesPaleocene95–93 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89.8 Mya66 Mya94.5 Mya61 Mya

22 occurrences of Parasmilia centralis 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

22 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

2 formations

Ahlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 8.05°EStrehlen — 51.03°N, 13.77°E

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The named rock units Parasmilia centralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parasmilia centralis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Parasmilia centralis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

79 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Parasmilia centralis, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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 content1

Picture of Parasmilia centralis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parasmilia centralis 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mantell 1822)