Morycastraea opoliensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MorycastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Morycastraea opoliensis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
1 formation
- Karchowice Formation · Muschelkalk Group1
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The named rock units Morycastraea opoliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Morycastraea opoliensis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Morycastraea opoliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Bivalvia1 site
- Chevalieria tenuiseptata1 site
- Dactylosaurus schroederi1 site
- Decurtella decurtata1 site
- Eckastraea prisca1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Montlivaltia triasina1 site
- Opolestraea exporrecta1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Pamiroseris silesiaca1 site
- Silesiastraea weissermeli1 site
- Stylophyllopsis1 site
- Tubiphytes1 site
- Volzeia szulci1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Morycastraea opoliensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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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No picture of Morycastraea opoliensis 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 Morycastraea opoliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Morycastraea opoliensis 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 itMorycastraea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morycowa 1988