Ceratothecia

No picture of Ceratothecia 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 Ceratothecia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontlivaltiidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous159–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya119.57 Mya158.9 Mya109.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Ceratothecia 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

2 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

Sanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°E

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The named rock units Ceratothecia 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.

Ceratothecia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ceratothecia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Ceratothecia 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 Ceratothecia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ceratothecia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turnsek 1972