Stylosmilia octonaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylosmiliaPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous155–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya137.05 Mya155.3 Mya132.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Stylosmilia octonaria 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

10 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

4 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°ECabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Stylosmilia octonaria 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.

Stylosmilia octonaria and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Stylosmilia octonaria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Stylosmilia octonaria, 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Stylosmilia octonaria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stylosmilia octonaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. Roniewicz 1976