Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MontlivaltiaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Montlivaltia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 9.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
3 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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.
Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Adelocoenia luciensis1 site
- Aggomorphastraea barrabei1 site
- Astraeofungia soaravikelyensis1 site
- Bathmosmilia hourcqi1 site
- Brachyseris besairiei1 site
- Cladophyllia choffati1 site
- Keriophyllia fischeri superficialis1 site
- Keriophyllia hourcqi1 site
- Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis1 site
- Macgeopsis complanata1 site
- Macgeopsis grandidieri1 site
- Macgeopsis turbinata1 site
- Microphyllia madagascariensis procera1 site
- Montlivaltia caryophyllata1 site
- Montlivaltia cottreaui1 site
- Montlivaltia hourcqi1 site
- Montlivaltia induta1 site
- Montlivaltia induta multisepta1 site
- Montlivaltia kobyi1 site
- Ovalastraeopsis soaravikelyensis1 site
- Pseudisastraea1 site
- Stylina hourcqi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis, 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
2 references- Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]2
- Revision de madreporaires du Dogger de la collection Koby (Revision of Dogger corals from the Koby collection]1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis 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 itMontlivaltia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1958