Dermosmilia

Dermosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DermosmiliidaePBDB
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 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 126 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 126 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 76 of 126 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 126 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 126 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 126 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 10 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 25 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 23 occurrences150–146 Mya — about 9 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 8 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 7 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 18 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 8 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170.9 Mya66 Mya177 Mya59 Mya

126 occurrences of Dermosmilia 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

126 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

36 formations

Schrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WHiraiga Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.73°N, 141.97°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.12°WLangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°ELangshan — 32.42°N, 81.08°EOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.98°EAlikper — 35.47°N, 61.72°EAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°EAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°ECumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°ESchrattenkalk — 47.25°N, 9.33°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WCerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EKorallenoolith — 52.37°N, 9.70°EOta Limestone — 39.07°N, 9.00°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°E

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The named rock units Dermosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dermosmilia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Dermosmilia, 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

51 references

Each of the 126 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. 39 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 Dermosmilia

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

No 3D scan of Dermosmilia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itDermosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1884