Parasmilia cylindrica
No picture of Parasmilia cylindrica 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 Parasmilia cylindrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParasmiliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Parasmilia
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parasmilia cylindrica on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Parasmilia cylindrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parasmilia cylindrica and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Parasmilia cylindrica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Anapachydiscus terminus1 site
- Baculites vertebralis1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Caryophyllia1 site
- Cheloniidae1 site
- Desmophyllum excavatum1 site
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum1 site
- Hoploscaphites constrictus1 site
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) velledaeforme1 site
- Isis1 site
- Moltkia minuta1 site
- Polyptychoceras (Phylloptychoceras)1 site
- Serpulidae1 site
- Thalassinoides1 site
- Zoophycos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parasmilia cylindrica, 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
2 references- Kuzmicheva, 19872
- Azooxanthellate corals in the Late Maastrichtian - Early Paleocene of the Danish basin: bryozoan and coral mounds in a boreal shelf setting1
Each of the 3 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 Parasmilia cylindrica 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 Parasmilia cylindrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parasmilia cylindrica 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 itParasmilia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850