Thecosmilia trichotoma

Thecosmilia trichotoma

Wolfbenni · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 51 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 48 of 51 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 51 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 5 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 8 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 7 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 6 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 5 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 5 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168.6 Mya121.4 Mya172 Mya119 Mya

51 occurrences of Thecosmilia trichotoma 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

51 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

9 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, 9.60°EKorallenoolith — 51.97°N, 9.62°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSobral — 38.93°N, 9.05°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.17°N, 20.98°E

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The named rock units Thecosmilia trichotoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecosmilia trichotoma and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

749 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Thecosmilia trichotoma, 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

26 references

Each of the 51 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Thecosmilia trichotoma

Credit
Wolfbenni
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thecosmilia trichotoma 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. (Goldfuss 1826)