Antilloseris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalamophylliidaePBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
15 occurrences of Antilloseris on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
15 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Cambridge Formation · Yellow Limestone Group2
- Ixtaclum Shale Formation · La Esperanza Group1
- San Juan Formation · La Esperanza Group1
- Avenal Formation1
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The named rock units Antilloseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Antilloseris and its relatives
EoceneWhere Antilloseris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Acropora1 site
- Actinacis1 site
- Antillia clarki1 site
- Asterosmilia1 site
- Astreopora (Astreopora) spinulosum1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Astrocoenia dachiardii1 site
- Astrocoenia incrustans1 site
- Cladocora bosquensis1 site
- Favia1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Hydnophora variabilis1 site
- Lepidocyclina1 site
- Leptomussa1 site
- Leptoria1 site
- Madracis johnwellsi1 site
- Meandrina1 site
- Nummulites1 site
- Physoseris1 site
- Placotrochus1 site
- Scleractinia1 site
- Stylophora compressa1 site
- Trachyphyllia1 site
- Trochocyathus mexicanum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Antilloseris, 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
5 references- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs7
- Some fossil corals from the West Indies3
- Cenozoic Reef Biofacies2
- Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica2
- Two new corals from the Avenal formation (Eocene) of California1
Each of the 15 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 Antilloseris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Antilloseris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalamophylliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1905