Microsmilia geinitzi
No picture of Microsmilia geinitzi 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 Microsmilia geinitzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrosmiliaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Microsmilia geinitzi on record, most of them in the Late 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
8 occurrences- Late 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
4 formations
- Korycany Formation3
- Bila hora Formation · Polypiers redeposes Group2
- Meißen Formation1
- Dölzschen Formation1
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The named rock units Microsmilia geinitzi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microsmilia geinitzi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Microsmilia geinitzi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Mesomorpha minima3 sites
- Actinastrea pseudominima2 sites
- Adelocoenia carantonensis2 sites
- Brachyphyllia circulus2 sites
- Confusaforma weyeri2 sites
- Dimorphastrea2 sites
- Fungiastraea2 sites
- Glenarea poctai2 sites
- Negoporites spissus2 sites
- Placoseris eturbensis2 sites
- Pleurocora reptans2 sites
- Siderastrea splendida2 sites
- Stelidioseris tourtiensis2 sites
- Stylohelia granulata2 sites
- Acrosmilia1 site
- Actinaraea minuta1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Actinastrea cribellum1 site
- Actinastrea geminata1 site
- Actinastrea ramosa1 site
- Brachymeandra facilis1 site
- Brachymeandra silex1 site
- Brachyphyllia1 site
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Microsmilia geinitzi, 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
2 references- Coraux crétacés de Bohême (Cénomanien supérieur; Turonien inférieur - Coniacien inférieur), République tchèque6
- Die Korallen der sächsischen Oberkreide - eine Zwischenbilanz und Bemerkungen zu Korallenfaunen des Cenomans [Upper Cretaceous corals from Saxony (Germany) - interim results and notes on Cenomanian coral faunas]2
Each of the 8 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 Microsmilia geinitzi 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 Microsmilia geinitzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microsmilia geinitzi 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 itMicrosmilia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bölsche 1871)