Thecosmilia annularis

Thecosmilia annularis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecosmiliaPBDB
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 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 16 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157.9 Mya154.8 Mya165.8 Mya148.7 Mya

16 occurrences of Thecosmilia annularis 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

16 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

5 formations

Ringstead Coral Bed — 50.63°N, 2.35°WRingstead Coral Bed — 50.80°N, 2.28°WCoral Rag — 51.75°N, 1.25°WCoral Rag — 53.98°N, 1.53°WSteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WWheatley Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.20°WCoralline Oolite — 54.25°N, 0.47°W

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The named rock units Thecosmilia annularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecosmilia annularis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Thecosmilia annularis, 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 16 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 content1

Picture of Thecosmilia annularis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thecosmilia annularis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itThecosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fleming 1828)