Dimorphastrea conica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 9.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Dimorphastrea conica 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
5 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Dimorphastrea conica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dimorphastrea conica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Dimorphastrea conica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
315 taxa- Comoseris minima4 sites
- Dimorphastrea heteromorpha4 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis4 sites
- Meandrophyllia amedei4 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis4 sites
- Actinaraea3 sites
- Adelocoenia parvistella3 sites
- Adelocoenia radisensis3 sites
- Comophyllia polymorpha3 sites
- Isastrea bernensis3 sites
- Meandraraea gresslyi3 sites
- Microsolena exigua3 sites
- Montlivaltia tenuilamellata3 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata3 sites
- Stephanastrea jurassica3 sites
- Stylosmilia corallina3 sites
- Adelocoenia breviseptata2 sites
- Adelocoenia hexaphyllia2 sites
- Adelocoenia limbata2 sites
- Adelocoenia pistillum2 sites
- Aplosmilia semisulcata2 sites
- Calamophylliopsis compacta2 sites
- Cladophyllia rollieri2 sites
- Clausastrea topalensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dimorphastrea conica, 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- Les scléractiniaires du Jurassique supérieur de la Dobrogea centrale, Roumanie3
- Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 21
- Beiträge zur Korallenfauna des Stramberger Tithon1
Each of the 5 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 Dimorphastrea conica 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 Dimorphastrea conica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimorphastrea conica 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDimorphastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1886