Heterocoenia

Heterocoenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterocoeniidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Life habit
colonialPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Heterocoeniidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 59 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 32 of 59 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 59 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 59 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 59 occurrencesEocene151–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence136–133 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 4 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 8 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–84 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145.06 Mya48.07 Mya151 Mya39 Mya

59 occurrences of Heterocoenia 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

59 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

26 formations

Moshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.82°N, 141.97°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WFont Bordonera — 42.25°N, 1.35°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.80°N, 141.97°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°ETheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°EMural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WSant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°EGlen Rose Limestone — 29.92°N, 98.28°WSenyus — 42.25°N, 1.35°EVillarroya de los Pinares — 40.05°N, 0.15°EFiguieres — 43.33°N, 5.20°EZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WDenton — 30.70°N, 103.40°WEmen — 43.15°N, 25.45°EOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Heterocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterocoenia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Heterocoenia, 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

33 references

Each of the 59 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. 21 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 Heterocoenia

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 itHeterocoeniidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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