Heterocoenia erecta
No picture of Heterocoenia erecta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterocoenia erecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterocoeniaPBDB
- 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 most 8.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Heterocoenia erecta on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heterocoenia erecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterocoenia erecta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Heterocoenia erecta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Actinacis haueri1 site
- Actinacis martiniana1 site
- Actinacis remesi1 site
- Dimorphastrea1 site
- Elephantaria lindstroemi1 site
- Fungiastraea crespoi1 site
- Goniopora elegans1 site
- Mesomorpha mammillata1 site
- Ogilviastraea bigemmis1 site
- Parapolytremacis septifera1 site
- Pleurocora arachnoides1 site
- Synastrea agaricites1 site
- Thamnarea lithodes1 site
- Thamnoseris arborescens1 site
- Vallimeandra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heterocoenia erecta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Heterocoenia erecta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterocoenia erecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterocoenia erecta was found in Sketchfab.
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 itHeterocoenia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Felix 1903