Stelidioseris retifera

No picture of Stelidioseris retifera 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 Stelidioseris retifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StelidioserisPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Actinastreidae

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya93.9 Mya138 Mya88.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Stelidioseris retifera 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

5 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

1 formation

Langshan — 33.45°N, 79.70°E

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The named rock units Stelidioseris retifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stelidioseris retifera and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Stelidioseris retifera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stelidioseris retifera, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Stelidioseris retifera 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 Stelidioseris retifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stelidioseris retifera 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 itStelidioseris through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stoliczka 1873)