Adelocoenia
Searched as Adelocoenia microphyllia compressa. The Paleobiology Database treats Adelocoenia as the accepted name.

Diego Delso · 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
- StylinidaePBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Adelocoenia 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
1 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Adelocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Adelocoenia and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Adelocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1,398 taxa- Microsolena agariciformis36 sites
- Isastrea34 sites
- Actinaraea32 sites
- Comoseris29 sites
- Stylina29 sites
- Microsolena27 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis26 sites
- Thamnasteria concinna26 sites
- Thamnasteria25 sites
- Thecosmilia24 sites
- Fungiastraea23 sites
- Dimorpharaea22 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata21 sites
- Comoseris minima20 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma18 sites
- Actinastrea crassoramosa17 sites
- Calamophylliopsis stockesi16 sites
- Montlivaltia16 sites
- Fungiastraea arachnoides15 sites
- Stylosmilia15 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum14 sites
- Goniocora pumila14 sites
- Dendraraea13 sites
- Enallhelia13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 152 sites for Adelocoenia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Adelocoenia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Diego Delso
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Adelocoenia 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 itStylinidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849