Aplosmilia

Aplosmilia

Michelin · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
AplosmiliidaePBDB
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 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 56 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 51 of 56 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 56 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 4 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 4 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 5 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 5 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya137.05 Mya168.9 Mya131.9 Mya

56 occurrences of Aplosmilia on record, most of them in the Late 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

56 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

13 formations

Valfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.12°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°ENakanosawa — 37.67°N, 140.95°EIkenoue — 34.02°N, 135.17°ECaporalino Limestone — 42.40°N, 9.22°ECabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.17°N, 20.98°EBetlis — 47.24°N, 9.37°E

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The named rock units Aplosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aplosmilia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Aplosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

679 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Aplosmilia, 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

32 references

Each of the 56 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 Aplosmilia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Michelin
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAplosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. D'Orbigny 1849