Stylina tenax

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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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 7 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya157.9 Mya175.2 Mya148.7 Mya

7 occurrences of Stylina tenax 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

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

1 formation

Badamu — 33.08°N, 56.17°E

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The named rock units Stylina tenax 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.

Stylina tenax and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stylina tenax, 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

4 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

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No picture of Stylina tenax 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 Stylina tenax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stylina tenax 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 itStylina through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etallon and Thurmann 1864