Thecosmilia gregaria

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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 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 157.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 8 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic171–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168.6 Mya159 Mya171.4 Mya157.4 Mya

9 occurrences of Thecosmilia gregaria on record, most of them in the Middle 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

9 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

Baghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WParvadeh — 33.00°N, 56.50°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°E

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The named rock units Thecosmilia gregaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecosmilia gregaria and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Thecosmilia gregaria and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Thecosmilia gregaria, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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 Thecosmilia gregaria 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 gregaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thecosmilia gregaria 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 Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (M'Coy 1851)