Columnocoenia lamberti

Columnocoenia lamberti

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColumnocoeniaPBDB
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 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya83.6 Mya167 Mya70 Mya

3 occurrences of Columnocoenia lamberti on record, most of them in the Late 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

3 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

Tuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°E

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The named rock units Columnocoenia lamberti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columnocoenia lamberti and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Columnocoenia lamberti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Columnocoenia lamberti, 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

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Columnocoenia lamberti

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Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Columnocoenia lamberti 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 itColumnocoenia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1957