Pleurostylina

Pleurostylina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiastreidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
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 least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 13 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 13 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous163–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–113 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154.8 Mya113.2 Mya163 Mya109 Mya

13 occurrences of Pleurostylina 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

13 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

7 formations

Mural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EMiamou — 34.97°N, 24.93°EDevils Racecourse — 18.22°N, 77.00°WMoshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EEmen — 43.15°N, 25.45°E

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The named rock units Pleurostylina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleurostylina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

286 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pleurostylina, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Pleurostylina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pleurostylina 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Fromentel 1856