Meandraraea somalica
No picture of Meandraraea somalica 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 somalica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Meandraraea somalica on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Meandraraea somalica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meandraraea somalica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Meandraraea somalica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Actinostromarianina praesalevensis1 site
- Amphiastrea gibberosa1 site
- Chlamys curvivarians1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Mactromya aequalis1 site
- Mactromya crassa1 site
- Nerinea somaliensis1 site
- Ovalastrea bihinensis1 site
- Pholadomya aubryi1 site
- Pseudisocardia macfadyeni1 site
- Somalirhynchia africana1 site
- Steineria somaliensis1 site
- Stylina1 site
- Stylina lortphillipsi1 site
- Stylina macfadyeni1 site
- Trigonia reticulata1 site
- Venilicardia hunti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Meandraraea somalica, 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 Meandraraea somalica 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 somalica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meandraraea somalica 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 itMeandraraea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1935