Eusmilia

Eusmilia

Stickpen · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
MeandrinidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 4 of 60 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 60 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 60 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 40 of 60 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 12 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

60 occurrences of Eusmilia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

60 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

15 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.33°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.52°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WRiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WAmbergris Cay Limestone — 18.00°N, 87.90°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WImperial — 32.87°N, 115.98°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°W

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The named rock units Eusmilia 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.

Eusmilia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eusmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Eusmilia, 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

27 references

Each of the 60 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. 15 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 content2

Picture of Eusmilia

Credit
Stickpen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itMeandrinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848