Vallimeandropsis davidsoni

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VallimeandropsisPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170.9 Mya159 Mya175.2 Mya154.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Vallimeandropsis davidsoni 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

2 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

2 formations

Birdlip Limestone — 51.85°N, 2.10°WHanifa — 24.92°N, 46.25°E

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The named rock units Vallimeandropsis davidsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Vallimeandropsis davidsoni and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Vallimeandropsis davidsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Vallimeandropsis davidsoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

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

No 3D scan of Vallimeandropsis davidsoni 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 itVallimeandropsis through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)