Dermosmilia laxata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DermosmiliaPBDB
- 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 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 119.57 Mya.
16 occurrences of Dermosmilia laxata 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
16 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Massenkalk Formation1
- Stramberk Limestone Formation1
- Pu Khloe Phi Formation · Umphang Group1
- Smochan Formation · Lovech Urgonian Group1
- Ellipsactinia Limestones Formation1
- Schrattenkalk Formation1
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The named rock units Dermosmilia laxata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dermosmilia laxata and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Dermosmilia laxata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
411 taxa- Microsolena agariciformis7 sites
- Microsolena thurmanni6 sites
- Placophyllia rugosa6 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma6 sites
- Adelocoenia limbata5 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum5 sites
- Comoseris minima5 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis5 sites
- Thamnasteria concinna5 sites
- Actinaraea granulata4 sites
- Adelocoenia pistillum4 sites
- Calamophylliopsis cervina4 sites
- Calamophylliopsis stockesi4 sites
- Comoseris baltovensis4 sites
- Goniocora pumila4 sites
- Isastrea helianthoides4 sites
- Meandrophyllia amedei4 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata4 sites
- Adelocoenia splendens3 sites
- Cladophyllia rollieri3 sites
- Cryptocoenia castellum3 sites
- Cyathophora bourgueti3 sites
- Epistreptophyllum commune3 sites
- Fungiastraea arachnoides3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Dermosmilia laxata, 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
10 references- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia5
- Les Madreporaires du Jurassic superieur de la bordure des Monts de Sainte-Croix, Pologne [Upper Jurassic Scleractinia from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland]3
- Upper Barremian-lower Aptian scleractinian corals of central Europe (Schrattenkalk Fm., Helvetic Zone, Austria, Germany, Switzerland)1
- Coral communities, zonation and paleoecology of an Upper Jurassic reef complex (Ellipsactinia Limestones, central Apennines, Italy)1
- Taxonomy of scleractinian corals from the Barremian-Lower Aptian of central north Bulgaria (Lovech Urgonian Group)1
- Korallen und Rudisten aus dem Apt im tertiären Flysch des Parnass-Gebirges bei Delphi-Arachowa (Mittelgriechenland)1
- Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 11
- Jurassic corals and coral-bearing limestones of Thailand and Burma1
- Beiträge zur Korallenfauna des Stramberger Tithon1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfauna von Württemberg1
Each of the 16 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
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No picture of Dermosmilia laxata 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 Dermosmilia laxata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dermosmilia laxata 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 itDermosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Etallon and Thurmann 1864)