Placogyra elegans

No picture of Placogyra elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Placogyra elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlacogyraPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya137.05 Mya155.3 Mya132.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Placogyra elegans 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

5 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

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°ECabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°W

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The named rock units Placogyra elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Placogyra elegans and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Placogyra elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Placogyra elegans, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 Placogyra elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Placogyra elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itPlacogyra through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eliasova 1973)