Donacosmilia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiastreidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 21 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 16 of 21 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 3 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya121.4 Mya172 Mya112 Mya

21 occurrences of Donacosmilia 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

21 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

6 formations

Lower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EToiba — 31.38°N, 89.00°ELangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°EYukariköy — 38.78°N, 39.88°EEmen — 43.15°N, 25.45°E

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The named rock units Donacosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Donacosmilia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Donacosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Donacosmilia, 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

14 references

Each of the 21 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Donacosmilia 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 Donacosmilia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Donacosmilia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAmphiastreidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1861