Comoseris

Comoseris

A J. Bruce · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ComoseridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Comoseridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Comoseridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Comoseridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 182 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 182 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 155 of 182 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 22 of 182 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 182 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 54 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 58 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 26 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 8 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 6 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 7 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya113.2 Mya195 Mya99 Mya

182 occurrences of Comoseris 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

182 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

30 formations

Oolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°EAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.13°WUrtabulak — 38.92°N, 64.85°EUrtabulak — 39.08°N, 64.25°EUrtabulak — 39.13°N, 65.43°EUrtabulak — 38.93°N, 64.48°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WSao Romao — 37.15°N, 7.93°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WSchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°ECalcaires siliceux de Dole — 47.13°N, 6.15°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WSchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°ECalcaires à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°EMarnes à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°ESt. Ursanne — 47.41°N, 7.42°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EHamam — 32.10°N, 35.63°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.87°N, 57.30°EErnstbrunn — 48.87°N, 16.67°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.62°E

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The named rock units Comoseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Comoseris and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Comoseris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

918 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Comoseris, 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

52 references

Each of the 182 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. 40 further references are not listed. 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 Comoseris

Source
GBIF
Credit
A J. Bruce
Licence
CC0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. D'Orbigny 1849