Dimorpharaea

Dimorpharaea

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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 74 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 178 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 30 of 178 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 98 of 178 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 26 of 178 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 178 occurrencesLate Cretaceous177–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 9 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 13 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 10 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 63 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 15 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 5 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 6 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 6 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 7 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 12 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya93.9 Mya177 Mya70 Mya

178 occurrences of Dimorpharaea 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

178 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

Fontaine Salée — 42.85°N, 2.30°ECalcaires siliceux de Dole — 47.13°N, 6.15°EOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 51.97°N, 9.62°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 56.83°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°ELalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WIfenthal — 47.40°N, 7.42°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°EBuda Limestone — 30.28°N, 97.75°WBuda Limestone — 30.50°N, 97.67°WBuda Limestone — 30.13°N, 97.82°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.17°N, 20.98°EIkenoue — 34.02°N, 135.17°EBadamu — 33.50°N, 58.00°EBadamu — 34.17°N, 56.67°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°ESchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EBenassal — 40.05°N, 0.15°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.92°N, 57.30°ECalcaires à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°EMarnes à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°ESt. Ursanne — 47.41°N, 7.42°EWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°ESmeltertown — 31.45°N, 106.55°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°W

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The named rock units Dimorpharaea 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. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimorpharaea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

898 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Dimorpharaea, 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

56 references

Each of the 178 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. 44 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 Dimorpharaea

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Fromentel 1861