Dimorpharaea ornata

No picture of Dimorpharaea ornata 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 Dimorpharaea ornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DimorpharaeaPBDB
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 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 20 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 9 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–148 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168.6 Mya100.5 Mya176 Mya92 Mya

20 occurrences of Dimorpharaea ornata on record, most of them in the Middle 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

20 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

10 formations

Baghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 56.83°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.17°N, 20.98°EBadamu — 33.50°N, 58.00°EParvadeh — 33.00°N, 56.50°EKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°ESikhor — 33.92°N, 57.25°EQal´eh Dokthar Limestone — 33.92°N, 57.33°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EIfenthal — 47.40°N, 7.42°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°W

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The named rock units Dimorpharaea ornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimorpharaea ornata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Dimorpharaea ornata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dimorpharaea ornata, 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

Each of the 20 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 content0

No picture of Dimorpharaea ornata 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 Dimorpharaea ornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dimorpharaea ornata 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 itDimorpharaea through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

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