Thecosmilia

Thecosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecosmiliidaePBDB
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 191 million years on record.

The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 360 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 360 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 33 of 360 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 360 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 48 of 360 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 215 of 360 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 42 of 360 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 360 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 360 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 360 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 360 occurrences248–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–233 Mya — about 5 occurrences233–226 Mya — about 5 occurrences226–219 Mya — about 5 occurrences219–212 Mya — about 6 occurrences212–205 Mya — about 7 occurrences205–198 Mya — about 13 occurrences198–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–169 Mya — about 25 occurrences169–162 Mya — about 23 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 117 occurrences155–148 Mya — about 62 occurrences148–141 Mya — about 38 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 15 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 7 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 10 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239.48 Mya48.07 Mya248 Mya34 Mya

360 occurrences of Thecosmilia 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

360 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

73 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.50°EKorallenoolith — 52.37°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.12°N, 10.10°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 51.97°N, 9.62°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WLangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°ELangshan — 32.05°N, 81.98°ELangshan — 31.40°N, 89.70°EMartin Bridge — 45.10°N, 116.78°WMartin Bridge — 44.95°N, 117.33°WMartin Bridge — 45.32°N, 117.31°WSlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°ELuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.12°WBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WSanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.89°EOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EOehrli — 47.34°N, 9.67°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.98°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ECalcare di Zu — 45.83°N, 9.58°EVršatec Limestone — 49.05°N, 18.19°EVršatec Limestone — 49.04°N, 18.16°ECoral Rag — 51.75°N, 1.25°WCoral Rag — 53.98°N, 1.53°WCoralline Oolite — 53.98°N, 1.53°WCoralline Oolite — 51.76°N, 1.20°WCoralline Oolite — 54.25°N, 0.47°WIkenoue — 34.02°N, 135.17°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WUrtabulak — 38.92°N, 64.85°EUrtabulak — 39.08°N, 64.25°EUrtabulak — 39.13°N, 65.43°ELalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.63°N, 2.35°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.20°N, 109.50°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.44°N, 109.46°W

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The named rock units Thecosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 191 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecosmilia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Thecosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,035 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 200 sites for Thecosmilia, 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

124 references

Each of the 360 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. 112 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 content2

Picture of Thecosmilia

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itThecosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848