Peplosmilia latona

Peplosmilia latona

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeplosmiliaPBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 6 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPaleocene86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83.6 Mya66 Mya86.2 Mya61.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Peplosmilia latona 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

7 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

3 formations

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°E

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

Peplosmilia latona and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Peplosmilia latona and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Peplosmilia latona, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Peplosmilia latona

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 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 itPeplosmilia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Felix 1903)