Periseris elegantula

Periseris elegantula

Orbigny (d') · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 60 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 58 of 60 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 60 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 60 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 38 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 17 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya119.57 Mya176 Mya109 Mya

60 occurrences of Periseris elegantula 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

60 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

9 formations

Calcaire à polypier de Frotey — 47.73°N, 6.00°EVršatec Limestone — 49.05°N, 18.19°EVršatec Limestone — 49.04°N, 18.16°EBadamu — 34.17°N, 56.67°EBadamu — 33.25°N, 57.00°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°ECalcaire d’Audun-le-Tiche — 49.47°N, 6.02°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EJaisalmer — 26.95°N, 70.88°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Periseris elegantula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Periseris elegantula and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Periseris elegantula and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Periseris elegantula, 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

10 references

Each of the 60 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 Periseris elegantula

Source
GBIF
Credit
Orbigny (d')
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPeriseris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)