Microphyllia densecostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
6 occurrences of Microphyllia densecostata 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
6 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.
Found in
3 formations
- Mural Limestone Formation · Bisbee Group2
- Schrattenkalk Formation1
- Slivnitsa Formation1
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The named rock units Microphyllia densecostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microphyllia densecostata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Microphyllia densecostata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Eugyra turnsekae4 sites
- Latusastrea provincialis4 sites
- Amphiastrea aethiopica3 sites
- Astraeofungia diversisepta3 sites
- Felixigyra patruliusi3 sites
- Microsolena major3 sites
- Paraclausastrea kaufmanni3 sites
- Pseudomyriophyllia carpathica3 sites
- Amphiaulastrea conferta2 sites
- Aulastraeopora2 sites
- Columactinastraea2 sites
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi2 sites
- Dendraraea mammelonata2 sites
- Dermosmilia cretacica2 sites
- Dimorpharaea koechlini2 sites
- Eugyra lanckoronensis2 sites
- Fungiastraea crespoi2 sites
- Hydnophora styriaca2 sites
- Latiastrea mucronata2 sites
- Meandrophyllia lotharinga2 sites
- Microsolena kobyi2 sites
- Mixastraea westfalica2 sites
- Myriophyllia propria2 sites
- Thamnoseris arnaudi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Microphyllia densecostata, 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
5 references- Late Aptian-early Albian corals from the Mural Limestone of the Bisbee Group (Tuape and Cerro de Oro areas), Sonora, Mexico2
- Kimmeridgian-Valanginian reef corals from the Moesian Platform from Bulgaria1
- Die Korallenfazies der ostalpinen Kreide (Helvetikum: Allgäuer Schrattenkalk; Nördliche Kalkalpen: Brandenberger Gosau) - Taxonomie, Palökologie1
- Korallen und Rudisten aus dem Apt im tertiären Flysch des Parnass-Gebirges bei Delphi-Arachowa (Mittelgriechenland)1
- Albskiye korally cela Tskhanari (Zapadnaya Grusiya) [Albian corals from Tskhanari (Western Georgia)]1
Each of the 6 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
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMicrophyllia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sikharulidze 1979