Columnocoenia minima

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

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 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya125.77 Mya172 Mya119 Mya

3 occurrences of Columnocoenia minima 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

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

3 formations

Cerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WRämsi Breccia — 47.02°N, 8.68°EHauptraugenstein — 47.48°N, 7.95°E

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The named rock units Columnocoenia minima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Columnocoenia minima and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Columnocoenia minima and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Columnocoenia minima, 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

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. 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 Columnocoenia minima 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 Columnocoenia minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Columnocoenia minima 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 Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beauvais 1966