Coelosmilia texana
No picture of Coelosmilia texana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Coelosmilia texana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoelosmiliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Coelosmilia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Coelosmilia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Coelosmilia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Coelosmilia texana 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
10 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Kiamichi Formation3
- Walnut Formation2
- Goodland Limestone Formation · Fredericksburg Group2
- Del Norte Formation1
- Edwards Limestone Formation · Fredericksburg Group1
- Tucumcari Formation1
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The named rock units Coelosmilia texana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coelosmilia texana and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Coelosmilia texana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Texigryphaea2 sites
- Amberleya1 site
- Ammonitida1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Calliostoma cragini1 site
- Ceratostreon1 site
- Coelodus1 site
- Crassatellina1 site
- Cretodus1 site
- Cribratina1 site
- Cyprimeria1 site
- Dentalium (Dentalium)1 site
- Drepanochilus1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Euspira1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Flaventia1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glossus slatana1 site
- Gnesioceramus bellvuensis1 site
- Gyrostrea hinchada1 site
- Hillites1 site
- Lima1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Coelosmilia texana, 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
3 references- Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States8
- Tethyan Albian corals, Cerro de Cristo Rey Uplift, Chihuahua and New Mexico1
- Nearshore fauna of the Tucumcari Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Albian), Quay County, New Mexico1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Coelosmilia texana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Coelosmilia texana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coelosmilia texana 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 itCoelosmilia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1857)