Aplopsammia collignoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AplopsammiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Aplopsammia
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Aplopsammia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Aplopsammia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Aplopsammia collignoni 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 Aplopsammia collignoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aplopsammia collignoni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Aplopsammia collignoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Aioloceras1 site
- Aioloceras besairiei1 site
- Ammonoceratites1 site
- Anagaudryceras1 site
- Anatina1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argonauticeras belliseptatum1 site
- Brancoceras (Brancoceras) carinatum1 site
- Brancoceras (Brancoceras) helcion1 site
- Calostylopsis sakalavensis1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cleoniceras1 site
- Concinnithyris obesa1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Cymatoceras sakalavum1 site
- Delpeya cottreaui1 site
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum1 site
- Douvillaster1 site
- Douvilleiceras1 site
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum1 site
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum1 site
- Eogaudryceras (Eotetragonites) umbilicostriatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aplopsammia collignoni, 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
2 references- Cretaceous and Paleogene corals of the Ukraine1
- Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Aplopsammia collignoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aplopsammia collignoni 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 itAplopsammia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1958