Donacosmilia corallina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DonacosmiliaPBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
8 occurrences of Donacosmilia corallina 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
8 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 Donacosmilia corallina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Donacosmilia corallina and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Donacosmilia corallina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Actinostromariidae3 sites
- Calamophylliopsis cervina3 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum2 sites
- Calamophylliopsis stockesi2 sites
- Microphyllia undans2 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis2 sites
- Pruvostastraea labyrinthiformis2 sites
- Acanthogyra columnaris1 site
- Actinaraea minuta1 site
- Actinastrea matheyi1 site
- Actinostromaria tokadiensis1 site
- Adelocoenia hexaphyllia1 site
- Adelocoenia radisensis1 site
- Amphiastrea basaltiformis1 site
- Amphiastrea piriformis1 site
- Astroporina orientalis1 site
- Axosmilia carrapateirensis1 site
- Barroisia1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
- Clausastrea pseudoconfluens1 site
- Comophyllia polymorpha1 site
- Complexastrea seriata1 site
- Cryptocoenia castellum1 site
- Cyathophora cesaredensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Donacosmilia corallina, 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- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia3
- Scleractinian corals of suborders Pachythecalina and Rhipidogyrina: discussion on similarities and description of species from Stramberk-Type Limestone, Polish Outer Carpathians1
- The occurrence of Donacosmilia corallina de Fromentel (Upper Jurassic) from the Kastamonu region in Turkey1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]1
- Jurassic Scleractinia from Amdo, northern Xizang1
- Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris1
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Donacosmilia corallina 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 corallina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Donacosmilia corallina 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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What may have been alongside itDonacosmilia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Fromentel 1861