Peplosmilia fromenteli

Peplosmilia fromenteli

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya89.8 Mya138 Mya85 Mya

11 occurrences of Peplosmilia fromenteli on record, most of them in the Early 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

11 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

Langshan — 32.23°N, 81.23°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°E

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The named rock units Peplosmilia fromenteli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peplosmilia fromenteli and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Peplosmilia fromenteli and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Peplosmilia fromenteli, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 Peplosmilia fromenteli

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peplosmilia fromenteli 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 itPeplosmilia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelis d'Ossat 1905)