Parasmilia

Parasmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParasmiliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 133 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 81 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 81 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 37 of 81 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 81 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 81 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 81 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 81 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 81 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–108 Mya — about 6 occurrences108–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 7 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 9 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.3–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences145.06 Mya11.63 Mya152 Mya4 Mya

81 occurrences of Parasmilia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

81 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

16 formations

Edwards Limestone — 30.25°N, 97.77°WEdwards Limestone — 31.13°N, 105.48°WEdwards Limestone — 30.07°N, 99.60°WAhlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 8.05°EStrehlen — 51.03°N, 13.77°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°ETermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EGlen Rose Limestone — 29.90°N, 98.32°WBruderndorf — 48.47°N, 16.30°EDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°EFaluns de Bois-Gouët — 47.49°N, 1.58°WStevns Klint — 55.57°N, 12.82°EMiria — 23.02°S, 114.08°EGrayson Marl — 33.04°N, 97.18°WGoodland Limestone — 33.42°N, 97.35°WComanche Peak Limestone — 31.66°N, 97.47°WDanish White Chalk — 55.30°N, 12.45°E

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The named rock units Parasmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parasmilia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Parasmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

850 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Parasmilia, 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

40 references

Each of the 81 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. 28 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 content1

Picture of Parasmilia

Credit
porshunta
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itParasmiliinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848