Ahrdorffia ornata

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132.6 Mya119.57 Mya139.7 Mya109.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Ahrdorffia ornata on record, most of them in the Early 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

16 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

6 formations

Schrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.50°N, 10.33°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WSchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°EPodestat — 43.22°N, 5.37°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°E

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The named rock units Ahrdorffia ornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ahrdorffia ornata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Ahrdorffia ornata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

301 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Ahrdorffia ornata, 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

9 references

Each of the 16 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 Ahrdorffia ornata 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 Ahrdorffia ornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ahrdorffia ornata 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 itMesomorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morycowa 1971)