Cryptocoenia

Cryptocoenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathophoridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
Life habit
colonialPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 158 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 158 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 67 of 158 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 65 of 158 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 158 occurrencesLate Cretaceous186–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 15 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 23 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 11 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 7 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 6 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 11 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 19 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 10 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 6 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 7 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 8 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 9 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences170.9 Mya93.9 Mya186 Mya88 Mya

158 occurrences of Cryptocoenia 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

158 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

32 formations

Korycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.28°N, 14.33°EKorycany — 50.27°N, 15.40°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WSchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ECabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WLalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WOehrli — 47.23°N, 9.35°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EEspinazo del Diablo — 29.20°N, 109.50°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.44°N, 109.46°WKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.15°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.82°N, 141.97°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.73°N, 141.97°ESan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WBalgarene — 43.08°N, 25.37°EBalgarene — 42.92°N, 25.30°EBranderfleck — 47.63°N, 11.67°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EKarai — 11.23°N, 79.02°EBarranquin — 10.42°N, 63.50°WDoi Yot — 16.75°N, 98.62°E

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The named rock units Cryptocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 94 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptocoenia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Cryptocoenia, 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

59 references

Each of the 158 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. 47 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 Cryptocoenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cryptocoenia 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849