Dactylopora

Dactylopora

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

11 occurrences of Dactylopora on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

11 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

Sables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EBaratang — 12.89°N, 92.90°ETecer — 39.42°N, 37.11°ESahinkaya — 40.86°N, 39.39°EHradisko — 49.22°N, 18.62°EBiely Potok — 49.29°N, 19.65°ECherra — 25.28°N, 91.70°E

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The named rock units Dactylopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dactylopora and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Dactylopora and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

329 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dactylopora, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 Dactylopora

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dactylopora 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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What may have been alongside itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1838