Dermoseris

Dermoseris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ComoseridaePBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 53 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 47 of 53 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 53 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 6 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 6 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 7 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 8 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157.9 Mya121.4 Mya162.3 Mya118.7 Mya

53 occurrences of Dermoseris 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

53 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

11 formations

Abadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WSlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°ELalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WCerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WSteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WSchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°E

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The named rock units Dermoseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dermoseris and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

800 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Dermoseris, 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

29 references

Each of the 53 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. 17 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 Dermoseris

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dermoseris was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itComoseridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1887