Siderofungia

Siderofungia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 105 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 13 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 37 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 37 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 37 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 6 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences132.6 Mya27.3 Mya139 Mya21 Mya

37 occurrences of Siderofungia 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

37 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

15 formations

Glen Rose Limestone — 30.00°N, 98.20°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.90°N, 98.32°WCumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°WZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WBarranquín — 8.96°N, 63.55°WMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°ESubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°ESalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EBarranquin — 10.42°N, 63.50°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°EMandrikovka — 48.45°N, 34.98°EKievskaya — 48.00°N, 33.42°ESon Sastre Sandstones and Lutites — 39.50°N, 2.93°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°E

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The named rock units Siderofungia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siderofungia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Siderofungia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

409 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Siderofungia, 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

23 references

Each of the 37 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. 11 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 content1

Picture of Siderofungia

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

No 3D scan of Siderofungia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itSiderastreidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reiss 1889