Aplosmilia semisulcata

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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 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 16 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 12 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 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

16 occurrences of Aplosmilia semisulcata 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

16 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

6 formations

Baghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°ECabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EBetlis — 47.24°N, 9.37°E

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The named rock units Aplosmilia semisulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aplosmilia semisulcata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Aplosmilia semisulcata, 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

14 references

Each of the 16 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. 2 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

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No picture of Aplosmilia semisulcata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 semisulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aplosmilia semisulcata 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 itAplosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelin 1843)