Goniocora

Goniocora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylinidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 64 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 64 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 57 of 64 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 64 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences187–184 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–160 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 10 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 18 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 13 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 5 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 4 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184.2 Mya125.77 Mya194 Mya120 Mya

64 occurrences of Goniocora on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

64 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

16 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.50°EKorallenoolith — 52.21°N, 9.20°EKorallenoolith — 52.21°N, 9.13°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°ECabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WAmaral — 38.95°N, 9.07°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°ESt. Ursanne — 47.41°N, 7.42°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSepingtiang — 3.83°S, 103.25°EPeral — 37.15°N, 7.60°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 8.02°WNakanosawa — 37.67°N, 140.95°EZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Goniocora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniocora and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Goniocora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

786 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Goniocora, 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

29 references

Each of the 64 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. 17 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 Goniocora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itStylinidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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