Paracuifia smithi

Paracuifia smithi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParacuifiaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Reimaniphylliidae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 215.38 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.8 Mya214.9 Mya

2 occurrences of Paracuifia smithi on record, most of them in the Late 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

2 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

1 formation

Nehenta — 55.30°N, 131.79°WNehenta — 55.20°N, 131.82°W

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The named rock units Paracuifia smithi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paracuifia smithi and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Paracuifia smithi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paracuifia smithi, 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 reference

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Paracuifia smithi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Paracuifia smithi 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 itParacuifia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Caruthers and Stanley 2008