Stylina tubulosa

Stylina tubulosa

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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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145.06 Mya121.4 Mya149.9 Mya112.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Stylina tubulosa on record, most of them in the Late 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

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

3 formations

Massenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Stylina tubulosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylina tubulosa and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Stylina tubulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stylina tubulosa, 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

5 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. 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 Stylina tubulosa

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Muenster 1829)