Montlivaltia truncata

No picture of Montlivaltia truncata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Montlivaltia truncata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 21 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous163–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–148 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya119.57 Mya163 Mya109 Mya

21 occurrences of Montlivaltia truncata on record, most of them in the Late 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

21 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

8 formations

Xarquan — 31.75°N, 89.83°ESidi Kralif — 35.43°N, 9.78°EAbadia — 39.02°N, 9.08°WSanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EMiamou — 34.97°N, 24.93°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EKatsirkhskaya — 43.60°N, 40.03°EBetlis — 47.24°N, 9.37°E

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The named rock units Montlivaltia truncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Montlivaltia truncata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Montlivaltia truncata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Montlivaltia truncata, 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

14 references

Each of the 21 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Montlivaltia truncata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Montlivaltia truncata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Montlivaltia truncata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1817)