Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris

Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DimorphastraeopsisPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya93.9 Mya138 Mya88.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

3 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

1 formation

Hidasivölgy Marl — 46.20°N, 18.35°E

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The named rock units Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris 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 itDimorphastraeopsis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stoliczka 1873)