Comoseris meandrinoides

Comoseris meandrinoides

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
ComoserisPBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 12 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya119.57 Mya166 Mya109 Mya

14 occurrences of Comoseris meandrinoides 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

14 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

7 formations

Alcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 8.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.13°WSanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.62°EAntalo — 13.64°N, 39.44°E

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The named rock units Comoseris meandrinoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Comoseris meandrinoides and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

240 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Comoseris meandrinoides, 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

12 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Comoseris meandrinoides

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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What may have been alongside itComoseris through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelin 1843)