Thecidiosmilia morycowae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecidiosmiliaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145.06 Mya110.1 Mya150 Mya100 Mya

2 occurrences of Thecidiosmilia morycowae 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

2 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

2 formations

Nogal — 29.20°N, 109.50°WEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Thecidiosmilia morycowae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Thecidiosmilia morycowae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Thecidiosmilia morycowae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Thecidiosmilia morycowae, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Thecidiosmilia morycowae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Thecidiosmilia morycowae 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 itThecidiosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kolodziej 1995