Dimorphastrea grandiflora

Dimorphastrea grandiflora

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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 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya100.5 Mya137.9 Mya93 Mya

3 occurrences of Dimorphastrea grandiflora on record. 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

2 formations

Karai — 11.23°N, 79.02°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°E

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The named rock units Dimorphastrea grandiflora 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.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dimorphastrea grandiflora, 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 Dimorphastrea grandiflora

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

No 3D scan of Dimorphastrea grandiflora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850