Aplosmilia aspera
No picture of Aplosmilia aspera was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Aplosmilia aspera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AplosmiliaPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Aplosmilia aspera 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
3 occurrences- Late 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 Aplosmilia aspera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aplosmilia aspera and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Aplosmilia aspera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Actinastrea furcata1 site
- Allocoenia trochiformis1 site
- Amphiastrea basaltiformis1 site
- Aplosmilia distans1 site
- Aplosmilia kobyi1 site
- Aplosmilia nuda1 site
- Aplosmilia semisulcata1 site
- Aplosmilia spathula1 site
- Axosmilia corallina1 site
- Blastosmilia fromenteli1 site
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum1 site
- Calamophylliopsis lombricalis1 site
- Comophyllia corrugata1 site
- Cryptocoenia octonaria1 site
- Cryptocoenia stelliserrata1 site
- Dermosmilia1 site
- Dermosmilia etalloni1 site
- Diplocoenia coespitosa1 site
- Enallhelia cutigera1 site
- Enallhelia gracilis n. sp.1 site
- Enallhelia jurensis1 site
- Epismilia excavata1 site
- Epismilia excelsa1 site
- Epistreptophyllum bonjouri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aplosmilia aspera, 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- Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris2
- Etudes paléontologiques sur le Haut-Jura. Rayonnés du Corallien1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Aplosmilia aspera was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Aplosmilia aspera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aplosmilia aspera was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itAplosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelin 1843)