Margarosmilia confluens

Margarosmilia confluens

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 18 of 20 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic245–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 4 occurrences236–232 Mya — about 6 occurrences232–229 Mya — about 3 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–219 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241.464 Mya154.8 Mya245 Mya147 Mya

20 occurrences of Margarosmilia confluens on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

20 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

7 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.13°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EBabulu — 8.51°S, 126.01°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EChitistone — 61.51°N, 142.76°WMailonggang — 29.85°N, 91.63°EMartin Bridge — 45.37°N, 117.35°WMisfah — 22.92°N, 57.67°E

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The named rock units Margarosmilia confluens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Margarosmilia confluens and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Margarosmilia confluens and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Margarosmilia confluens, 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

14 references

Each of the 20 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. 2 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 Margarosmilia confluens

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Margarosmilia confluens 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 itMargarosmilia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)