Stylina inflata

Stylina inflata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 25 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 25 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous163–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–152 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya119.57 Mya163 Mya109 Mya

25 occurrences of Stylina inflata 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

25 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

8 formations

Grodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EAtocongo — 12.53°S, 76.50°WGrodziszcze Conglomerates — 49.83°N, 19.93°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Stylina inflata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylina inflata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Stylina inflata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

421 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Stylina inflata, 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

19 references

Each of the 25 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. 7 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 Stylina inflata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itStylina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Fromentel 1856