Columnocoenia safarratensis
No picture of Columnocoenia safarratensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 safarratensis, 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 most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Columnocoenia safarratensis 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- Late Jurassic100%
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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Columnocoenia safarratensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Columnocoenia safarratensis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Columnocoenia safarratensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Bracthelia arabica2 sites
- Kobyastraea lomontiana2 sites
- Microphyllia soemmeringii2 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata2 sites
- Adelocoenia parvistella1 site
- Adelocoenia wegeneri1 site
- Coenastraea abakkaynata1 site
- Coenastraea hyatti1 site
- Isastrea bernensis1 site
- Isastrea hemisphaerica1 site
- Microphyllia brevivallis1 site
- Montlivaltia cornutiformis1 site
- Montlivaltia frustriformis1 site
- Ovalastrea michelini1 site
- Ovalastrea proeminens1 site
- Stylina kachensis1 site
- Vallimeandropsis davidsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Columnocoenia safarratensis, 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- Contribution to the scleractinian corals of Hanifa Formation, Upper Jurassic, Jabal Al-Abakkayn, central Saudi Arabia1
- Oxfordian hermatypic corals from central Saudi Arabia1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Columnocoenia safarratensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 safarratensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itColumnocoenia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. El-Asa'ad 1991