Meandraraea tulae
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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 least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Meandraraea tulae 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 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
3 formations
- Glen Rose Limestone Formation · Trinity Group1
- Zapotitlan Formation1
- Altamira Formation1
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The named rock units Meandraraea tulae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meandraraea tulae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Meandraraea tulae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Astrocoenia scyphoidea1 site
- Aulastraeopora harrisi1 site
- Cyathomorpha damoni1 site
- Cyathophora haysensis1 site
- Epiphaxum labyrinthicum1 site
- Eugyra cuyleri1 site
- Hydnophora styriaca1 site
- Latiastrea whitneyi1 site
- Meandraraea plummeri1 site
- Mesomorpha vaughani1 site
- Microsolena texana1 site
- Morphastrea barcenai1 site
- Phacellocoenia tolmachoffana1 site
- Polyphylloseris icaunensis1 site
- Siderofungia irregularis1 site
- Stelidioseris whitneyi1 site
- Thalamocaeniopsis neocomiensis1 site
- Thamnoseris morchella1 site
- Thecosmilia1 site
- Tiarasmilia casteri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Meandraraea tulae, 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
3 references- Lower Cenomanian (Cretaceous) corals from Cóbreces (Cantabria, northern Spain). Part 3: families Microsolelenidae, Negoporitidae, and Synastreidae1
- Barremian corals from San Antonio Texcala, Puebla, Mexico - A review of the type material of Felix 18911
- Corals of the Trinity Group of the Comanchean of central Texas1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Meandraraea tulae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meandraraea tulae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Felix 1891)