Ellipsocoenia conferta

Ellipsocoenia conferta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EllipsocoeniaPBDB
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 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121.4 Mya27.3 Mya128 Mya21 Mya

4 occurrences of Ellipsocoenia conferta 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

4 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

Tonasa — 4.42°S, 119.67°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.68°E

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The named rock units Ellipsocoenia conferta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ellipsocoenia conferta and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ellipsocoenia conferta, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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

Media content1

Picture of Ellipsocoenia conferta

Source
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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ellipsocoenia conferta 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 itEllipsocoenia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Umbgrove 1925)