Heterocoenia grandis
No picture of Heterocoenia grandis 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 grandis, 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 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Heterocoenia grandis 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
2 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
- Hochmoos Formation · Gosau Group1
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The named rock units Heterocoenia grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterocoenia grandis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Heterocoenia grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Acrosmilia elongata1 site
- Actinacis martiniana1 site
- Actinastrea elongata1 site
- Agathelia asperella1 site
- Aspidastraea orientalis1 site
- Astraraea media1 site
- Aulosmilia aspera1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Brachymeandra leptophylla1 site
- Brachyphyllia felixi1 site
- Cladocora gracilis1 site
- Columactinastraea1 site
- Columactinastraea formosa1 site
- Columastrea striata1 site
- Cunnolites polymorphus1 site
- Dictuophyllia radiata1 site
- Dimorphastrea scutellum1 site
- Diploctenium ferrumequinum1 site
- Flabellosmilia bisinuatum1 site
- Heterocoenia exigua1 site
- Heterocoenia verrucosa1 site
- Hydnophora styriaca1 site
- Lophomeandra felixi1 site
- Montastraea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heterocoenia grandis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Heterocoenia grandis 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 grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterocoenia grandis 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.
Keep going
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. Reuss 1854