Confusaforma weyeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConfusaformaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
- Life habit
- colonialPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Confusaforma weyeri 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Korycany Formation2
- Bila hora Formation · Polypiers redepose Group1
- Dölzschen Formation1
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The named rock units Confusaforma weyeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Confusaforma weyeri and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Confusaforma weyeri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Mesomorpha minima3 sites
- Negoporites spissus3 sites
- Siderastrea splendida3 sites
- Actinastrea cribellum2 sites
- Brachymeandra silex2 sites
- Brachyphyllia circulus2 sites
- Cryptocoenia regularis2 sites
- Glenarea poctai2 sites
- Heliopora radiata2 sites
- Microphyllia2 sites
- Microphyllia maeandrinoides2 sites
- Microsmilia geinitzi2 sites
- Negoporites textilis2 sites
- Placoseris eturbensis2 sites
- Pleurocora reptans2 sites
- Synastrea parallela2 sites
- Thamnasteria tenuissima2 sites
- Acrosmilia1 site
- Actinastrea pseudominima1 site
- Actinastrea ramosa1 site
- Adelocoenia carantonensis1 site
- Barysmilia brevicaulis1 site
- Brachymeandra facilis1 site
- Canleria clemens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Confusaforma weyeri, 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- Coraux crétacés de Bohême (Cénomanien supérieur; Turonien inférieur - Coniacien inférieur), République tchèque3
- Early Cenomanian coral faunas from Nea Nikopoli (Kozani, Greece; Cretaceous)1
- Die Korallen der sächsischen Oberkreide - eine Zwischenbilanz und Bemerkungen zu Korallenfaunen des Cenomans [Upper Cretaceous corals from Saxony (Germany) - interim results and notes on Cenomanian coral faunas]1
Each of the 5 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 Confusaforma weyeri 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 Confusaforma weyeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Confusaforma weyeri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itConfusaforma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Löser 1987