Thecosmilia dichotoma

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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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 37 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 21 of 37 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 4 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 4 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 5 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 4 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya113.2 Mya172 Mya99 Mya

37 occurrences of Thecosmilia dichotoma 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

37 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

10 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.89°EOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EOehrli — 47.34°N, 9.67°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.98°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EAmaral — 38.95°N, 9.07°WAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°EOehrli — 46.87°N, 8.43°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°E

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The named rock units Thecosmilia dichotoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecosmilia dichotoma and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

625 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Thecosmilia dichotoma, 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

20 references

Each of the 37 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. 8 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

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No picture of Thecosmilia dichotoma 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 Thecosmilia dichotoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thecosmilia dichotoma 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 itThecosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1884