Archaeosmilia

Archaeosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchaeosmiliidaePBDB
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 8.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 13 occurrencesEarly Jurassic228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 1 occurrence198–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 2 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–191 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201.4 Mya192.9 Mya228.2 Mya183.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Archaeosmilia on record, most of them in the Early 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

13 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

1 formation

Gurumdy — 38.17°N, 74.02°EGurumdy — 37.78°N, 73.66°E

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The named rock units Archaeosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeosmilia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Archaeosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Archaeosmilia, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 Archaeosmilia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itArchaeosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melnikova 1975