Elasmocoenia

Elasmocoenia

Michelin · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterocoeniidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Life habit
colonialPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125.77 Mya85.7 Mya134 Mya83 Mya

8 occurrences of Elasmocoenia on record, most of them in the Late 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

8 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

Devils Racecourse — 18.22°N, 77.00°WCumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°W

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The named rock units Elasmocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elasmocoenia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Elasmocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elasmocoenia, 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

5 references

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. 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 Elasmocoenia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Michelin
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elasmocoenia 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 itHeterocoeniidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851