Placosmilia

Placosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontlivaltiidaePBDB
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 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 65 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 65 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 65 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 65 occurrencesEocene — about 26 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–98 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 12 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 12 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165.3 Mya11.63 Mya171 Mya2 Mya

65 occurrences of Placosmilia 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

65 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

18 formations

Hochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°EPromina — 43.85°N, 16.15°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.07°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WSan Juan — 16.67°N, 93.08°WPirabas — 0.77°S, 47.18°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EArdanatz Sandstone — 42.80°N, 1.55°WQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WSimsima — 24.28°N, 55.83°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°ES'Envestida Calcarenite — 39.15°N, 2.95°EIgualada — 41.58°N, 1.70°ETossa — 41.55°N, 1.57°ECollbás — 41.55°N, 1.68°ETarbur — 32.00°N, 51.65°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Placosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Placosmilia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Placosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

888 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Placosmilia, 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

40 references

Each of the 65 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Placosmilia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMontlivaltiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848