Chomatoseris orbulites

Chomatoseris orbulites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChomatoserisPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Chomatoseris
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Chomatoseris
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Chomatoseris
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 17 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 17 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 4 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya157.9 Mya193.8 Mya148.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Chomatoseris orbulites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

17 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

4 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WMarrat — 23.92°N, 46.25°EOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°W

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The named rock units Chomatoseris orbulites 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.

Chomatoseris orbulites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Chomatoseris orbulites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

237 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Chomatoseris orbulites, 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

12 references

Each of the 17 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 Chomatoseris orbulites

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 itChomatoseris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamouroux 1821)