Stylina

Stylina is a genus of extinct stony corals.

Stylina

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 160 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 547 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 547 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 50 of 547 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 339 of 547 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 142 of 547 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 547 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 547 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 547 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 547 occurrences209–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–179 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences179–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 11 occurrences167–161 Mya — about 38 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 138 occurrences156–150 Mya — about 125 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 69 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 21 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 21 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 14 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 66 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 17 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 7 occurrences108–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201.4 Mya41.03 Mya209 Mya30 Mya

547 occurrences of Stylina on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

547 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

91 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.38°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°ECabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°ESao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WSao Romao — 37.15°N, 7.93°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.57°N, 10.35°ETataouine — 32.62°N, 10.40°EOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°WWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WWhite Limestone — 51.85°N, 1.27°WWhite Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.63°WWhite Limestone — 51.87°N, 1.27°WWhite Limestone — 51.85°N, 1.42°WWhite Limestone — 51.78°N, 1.48°WUrtabulak — 38.92°N, 64.85°EUrtabulak — 39.08°N, 64.25°EUrtabulak — 39.13°N, 65.43°EUrtabulak — 38.93°N, 64.48°EBihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°EBihen Limestone — 10.23°N, 45.47°EBihen Limestone — 11.02°N, 48.97°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°EIkenoue — 34.02°N, 135.17°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°EBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EKorond — 33.92°N, 57.33°EXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°EXiaqiongco — 31.73°N, 89.52°EGrodziszcze Conglomerates — 49.83°N, 19.93°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WXarquan — 31.75°N, 89.83°E

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The named rock units Stylina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 67 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 306 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylina and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Stylina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,476 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 248 sites for Stylina, and this reads 240 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

160 references

Each of the 547 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. 148 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 Stylina

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stylina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStylinidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816