Curtoseris
No picture of Curtoseris 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 Curtoseris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CurtoseriidaePBDB
- 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 least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
6 occurrences of Curtoseris on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
6 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Curtoseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Curtoseris and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Curtoseris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Astraeomorpha confusa4 sites
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa3 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta2 sites
- Astraeomorpha reimani2 sites
- Ceriostella martini2 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli2 sites
- Cuifastraea2 sites
- Cuifastraea granulata2 sites
- Distichophyllia norica2 sites
- Margarosmilia2 sites
- Nevadoseris punctata2 sites
- Pamiroseris2 sites
- Pamiroseris meriani2 sites
- Retiophyllia2 sites
- Retiophyllia dichotoma2 sites
- Retiophyllia langobardica2 sites
- Stylophyllum2 sites
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis1 site
- Areaseris1 site
- Astraeomorpha minor1 site
- Astraeomorpha multisepta1 site
- Ceriostella parva1 site
- Chondrocoenia paradoxa1 site
- Cinnabaria expansa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Curtoseris, 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
4 references- Upper Triassic corals from Nevada, western North America, and the implications for paleoecology and paleogeography2
- Atlas Triasovykh Bespozvonochnykh Pamira2
- Platy coral patch reefs from eastern Panthalassa (Nevada, USA): Unique reef construction in the Late Triassic1
- New Triassic Colonial Scleractinians from the Southeastern Pamirs1
Each of the 6 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 Curtoseris 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 Curtoseris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Curtoseris 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 itCurtoseriidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melnikova 1996