Oculina oamaruensis

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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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 25.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 21.7 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39.1 Mya25.2 Mya43.1 Mya21.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Oculina oamaruensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 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

2 formations

Wharekuri Greensand — 44.70°S, 170.43°EWaiareka — 45.12°S, 170.87°E

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The named rock units Oculina oamaruensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oculina oamaruensis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Oculina oamaruensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Oculina oamaruensis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Oculina oamaruensis 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 oamaruensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oculina oamaruensis 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 itOculina through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Park 1917