Vallimeandra

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LatomeandridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 11 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous170–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165.3 Mya89.8 Mya170 Mya84 Mya

11 occurrences of Vallimeandra on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

11 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

Theresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°ESchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°E

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The named rock units Vallimeandra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vallimeandra and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Vallimeandra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Vallimeandra, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Vallimeandra 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLatomeandridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1957