Dimorphocoenia crassisepta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphocoeniaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Dimorphocoenia crassisepta 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
- Balgarene Formation · Lovech Urgonian Group2
- Llacova Formation1
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The named rock units Dimorphocoenia crassisepta 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.
Dimorphocoenia crassisepta and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Dimorphocoenia crassisepta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Adelocoenia carantonensis2 sites
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi2 sites
- Dimorpharaea2 sites
- Fungiastraea2 sites
- Hydnophoromeandraraea2 sites
- Meandraraea2 sites
- Microsolena2 sites
- Ovalastrea2 sites
- Periseris frondescens2 sites
- Thamnoseris delorenzoi2 sites
- <Thrombolite>1 site
- Acanthocoenia1 site
- Acanthocoenia neocomiensis1 site
- Acrosmilia1 site
- Actinaraea robusta1 site
- Ahrdorffia ornata1 site
- Amphiaulastrea1 site
- Anchura dubius1 site
- Angaria coronata1 site
- Apocladophyllia neocomiensis1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Aporrhais pugens1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Bacinella irregularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dimorphocoenia crassisepta, 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
6 references- Taxonomy of scleractinian corals from the Barremian-Lower Aptian of central north Bulgaria (Lovech Urgonian Group)2
- Reef development on a deepening platform: two Early Cretaceous coralgal patch reefs (Cati, Llacova Formation, eastern Spain) compared1
- Aptian/Albian coral assemblages of the Helicon Mountains (Boeotia, Greece): palaeontological, palaeoecological and palaeogeographical aspects1
- La faune corallienne du mont Kassenberg a Mülheim-sur-la-Ruhr (Bassin cretace de Westphalie, nord-ouest de l'Allemagne), 2. Paleontologie [The coral fauna of Mount Kassenberg in Mühlheim-an-der-Ruhr (Cretaceous Basin of Westphalia, NW Germany), 2. Paleontology]1
- Les constructions a cnidaires des calcaires urgoniens (Barremien) de Provence, et leur environnement [Constructions of Cnidaria from the Urgonian Limestones (Barremian) from Provence, and their environment]1
- Monographie des Polypiers Crétacés de la Suisse [Monograph of cretaceous corals from Switzerland]1
Each of the 7 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 Dimorphocoenia crassisepta
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- Licence
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dimorphocoenia crassisepta 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 itDimorphocoenia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)