Oculina conferta
No picture of Oculina conferta 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 Oculina conferta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OculinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Oculina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Oculinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
9 occurrences of Oculina conferta on record. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Trstelj Formation · Kras Group3
- Barton Beds Formation1
- sachun Formation1
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The named rock units Oculina conferta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Anomalina ammonoides1 site
- Cornuspira1 site
- Cristellaria1 site
- Echinopedina1 site
- Echinus1 site
- Graphularia wetherelli1 site
- Miliolina1 site
- Nodosaria1 site
- Pityostrobus1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Polymorphina1 site
- Pullinia sphaeroides1 site
- Truncatulina1 site
- Turbinolia bowerbanki1 site
- Turbinolia humilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Oculina conferta, 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
4 references- Coral fauna across the Cretaceous– Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran3
- The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (Uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): Environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM?3
- Paleocene Corals from the northern Adriatic platform2
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire1
Each of the 9 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. 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
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No picture of Oculina conferta 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 Oculina conferta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oculina conferta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOculina through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850