Monomyces

Monomyces is a genus of corals belonging to the family Flabellidae.

Monomyces

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FlabellidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Flabellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Flabellidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Flabellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Flabellidae

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–1.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.3–640 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences640 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.9 Mya129 ka19.2 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Monomyces on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

12 occurrences

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

Pucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°ERottnest Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.52°EPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°ETonohama — 33.43°N, 133.97°E

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The named rock units Monomyces has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monomyces and its relatives

Miocene

Where Monomyces and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Monomyces, 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

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Monomyces

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFlabellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1834