Dimorphastrea explanata

No picture of Dimorphastrea explanata 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 explanata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 139.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous139–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139.6 Mya132.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Dimorphastrea explanata 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

4 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

2 formations

Oehrli — 47.23°N, 9.35°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°E

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The named rock units Dimorphastrea explanata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dimorphastrea explanata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Dimorphastrea explanata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dimorphastrea explanata, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 explanata 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 explanata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dimorphastrea explanata 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 itDimorphastrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Fromentel 1857