Ellipsocoenia

Ellipsocoenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LatomeandridaePBDB
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 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 39 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 39 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 39 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 39 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 3 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 7 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 14 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154.8 Mya27.3 Mya161 Mya20 Mya

39 occurrences of Ellipsocoenia 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

39 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

10 formations

Grodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EGrodziszcze — 49.95°N, 19.85°ESchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°ESchrattenkalk — 47.25°N, 9.33°ESchrattenkalk — 46.39°N, 7.45°ESon Sastre Sandstones and Lutites — 39.50°N, 2.93°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ETonasa — 4.42°S, 119.67°EMorgiou — 43.23°N, 5.40°EDomvrena Marble — 38.35°N, 22.98°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.68°EOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°E

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The named rock units Ellipsocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ellipsocoenia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Ellipsocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Ellipsocoenia, 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

22 references

Each of the 39 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. 10 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 content1

Picture of Ellipsocoenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ellipsocoenia 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 itLatomeandridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850