Acrosmilia conica

Acrosmilia conica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrosmiliaPBDB
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 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence154.8 Mya61.66 Mya164 Mya54 Mya

12 occurrences of Acrosmilia conica 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

12 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

1 formation

Sanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°E

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The named rock units Acrosmilia conica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acrosmilia conica and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acrosmilia conica, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Acrosmilia conica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850