Dendrosmilia crassa

Searched as Aplosmilia crassa. The Paleobiology Database treats Dendrosmilia crassa as the accepted name.

Dendrosmilia crassa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrosmiliaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous160–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya83.6 Mya160 Mya70 Mya

4 occurrences of Dendrosmilia crassa 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

4 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

3 formations

Vallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°ECaporalino Limestone — 42.40°N, 9.22°ELangshan — 31.38°N, 89.00°E

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The named rock units Dendrosmilia crassa 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.

Dendrosmilia crassa and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dendrosmilia crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dendrosmilia crassa, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Dendrosmilia crassa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dendrosmilia crassa was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itDendrosmilia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1854)