Eocomoseris

Eocomoseris

Menchikoff, Nicolas · 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
ComoseridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Comoseridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Comoseridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Comoseridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 126 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 30 of 54 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 54 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 54 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 54 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 54 occurrences244–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–224 Mya — about 4 occurrences224–219 Mya — about 5 occurrences219–214 Mya — about 5 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 5 occurrences209–203 Mya — about 6 occurrences203–198 Mya — about 5 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 4 occurrences193–188 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 4 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–117 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence227.3 Mya100.5 Mya244 Mya91 Mya

54 occurrences of Eocomoseris on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

54 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

25 formations

Sierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°WHosselkus — 40.78°N, 122.11°WHosselkus — 40.76°N, 122.03°WNimaloksa — 32.23°N, 78.03°ENimaloksa — 32.10°N, 78.17°ENimaloksa — 31.83°N, 78.42°ELuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.12°WSchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.69°EGurumdy — 38.17°N, 74.02°EMartin Bridge — 44.95°N, 117.33°WMartin Bridge — 45.37°N, 117.35°WGurumdin — 37.87°N, 74.23°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°EOrbitolina Limestone — 33.05°N, 51.95°EChambara — 10.85°S, 76.17°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.83°WLlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EYak Kharka — 28.67°N, 84.25°ESchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°EPodestat — 43.23°N, 5.45°EDevils Racecourse — 18.22°N, 77.00°WAntimonio — 30.43°N, 112.87°WNehenta — 55.16°N, 131.75°WVillarroya de los Pinares — 40.53°N, 0.70°WNayband — 34.06°N, 58.08°EFontaine Salée — 42.85°N, 2.30°E

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

Eocomoseris and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Eocomoseris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

622 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Eocomoseris, 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

37 references

Each of the 54 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. 25 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 Eocomoseris

Source
GBIF
Credit
Menchikoff, Nicolas
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itComoseridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melnikova et al. 1993