Meandraraea lorioli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeandraraeaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Meandraraea lorioli 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
3 occurrences- Early 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.
Meandraraea lorioli and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Meandraraea lorioli and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Hydnophoromeandraraea provencensis2 sites
- Apocladophyllia koniakensis1 site
- Calamophylliopsis fotisalensis1 site
- Clausastrea saltensis1 site
- Cyathophora steinmanni1 site
- Dermosmilia neocomiensis1 site
- Diplocoenia saltensis1 site
- Disparistromaria urgonica1 site
- Eohydnophora ovalis1 site
- Eugyra (Felixigyra) picteti1 site
- Felixigyra deangelisi1 site
- Felixigyra patruliusi1 site
- Microphyllia maeandrinoides1 site
- Microsolena major1 site
- Microsolena parva1 site
- Mitrodendron1 site
- Paraclausastrea valclusensis1 site
- Stylina inflata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Meandraraea lorioli, 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
2 references- Lower Cretaceous Microsolenina (Scleractinia) from Provence (southern France)2
- Monographie des Polypiers Crétacés de la Suisse [Monograph of cretaceous corals from Switzerland]1
Each of the 3 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 Meandraraea lorioli 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 Meandraraea lorioli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meandraraea lorioli 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 itMeandraraea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koby 1897)