Stylocoenia

Stylocoenia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 85 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 85 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 85 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 85 occurrencesEocene — about 40 of 85 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 22 of 85 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 85 occurrencesMiocene146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 10 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 17 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66 Mya15.98 Mya146 Mya11 Mya

85 occurrences of Stylocoenia 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

85 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

34 formations

Promina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°ECastro Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°ECastro Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.45°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ETonasa — 4.42°S, 119.65°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WTavo — 11.03°N, 51.03°ETavo — 7.95°N, 49.83°ETrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°EFaluns de Bois-Gouët — 47.49°N, 1.58°WChipola — 30.45°N, 85.15°WTarbur — 32.00°N, 51.65°ETarbur — 29.20°N, 58.30°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°ESanto Spirito — 42.17°N, 14.17°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EAuradu Limestone — 10.33°N, 45.05°ESubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°ELa Tossa — 41.58°N, 1.67°ESwanswick — 18.37°N, 77.12°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EChattahoochee — 30.85°N, 84.62°WRoda — 42.30°N, 0.53°ELuza — 49.10°N, 31.97°EPamplona — 42.50°N, 0.26°W

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The named rock units Stylocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylocoenia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Stylocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

948 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Stylocoenia, 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

46 references

Each of the 85 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. 34 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 Stylocoenia

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849