Acrosmilia

Acrosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrosmiliidaePBDB
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 134 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 70 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 14 of 70 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 70 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 70 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 70 occurrences178–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 5 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 8 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168.2 Mya33.9 Mya178 Mya24 Mya

70 occurrences of Acrosmilia 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

70 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

20 formations

Korycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EBuda Limestone — 30.28°N, 97.75°WAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EBadamu — 33.50°N, 58.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EHanifa — 25.02°N, 46.22°EAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WLangshan — 33.45°N, 79.70°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°ESidi Kralif — 35.43°N, 9.78°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EKonglomeratbank — 48.53°N, 24.63°EPromina — 43.85°N, 16.15°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Acrosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acrosmilia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

967 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Acrosmilia, 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

44 references

Each of the 70 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. 32 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 Acrosmilia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Acrosmilia 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 itAcrosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1849)