Stylina parcicosta

Stylina parcicosta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylinaPBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 10 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya139.1 Mya166 Mya131.9 Mya

12 occurrences of Stylina parcicosta 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

12 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

Sao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°E

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The named rock units Stylina parcicosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylina parcicosta and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Stylina parcicosta, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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 Stylina parcicosta

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Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Stylina parcicosta 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.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1905