Peplosmilia

Peplosmilia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontlivaltiidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 30 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 30 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 30 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168.2 Mya66 Mya173 Mya59 Mya

30 occurrences of Peplosmilia on record, most of them in the Early 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

30 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

10 formations

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°ELangshan — 32.23°N, 81.23°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EOehrli — 46.87°N, 8.43°E

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The named rock units Peplosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peplosmilia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Peplosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Peplosmilia, 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

20 references

Each of the 30 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. 8 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 Peplosmilia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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.

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What may have been alongside itMontlivaltiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850