Stylinidae

Stylinidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 220 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 20.45 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1545 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 1545 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 1545 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 1545 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 129 of 1545 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1033 of 1545 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 312 of 1545 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 36 of 1545 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 1545 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 1545 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1545 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 1545 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences212–204 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences204–197 Mya — about 5 occurrences197–189 Mya — about 5 occurrences189–181 Mya — about 4 occurrences181–173 Mya — about 7 occurrences173–165 Mya — about 78 occurrences165–157 Mya — about 260 occurrences157–149 Mya — about 599 occurrences149–142 Mya — about 229 occurrences142–134 Mya — about 75 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 46 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 134 occurrences118–110 Mya — about 36 occurrences110–102 Mya — about 11 occurrences102–94 Mya — about 26 occurrences94–87 Mya — about 7 occurrences87–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence243.43 Mya23.04 Mya252 Mya16 Mya

1,545 occurrences of Stylinidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1,545 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

136 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.50°EKorallenoolith — 52.37°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.21°N, 9.20°EKorallenoolith — 52.21°N, 9.13°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 51.97°N, 9.62°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.80°ECabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WSao Romao — 37.15°N, 7.93°WSlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.57°N, 10.35°ETataouine — 32.62°N, 10.40°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EGrodziszcze — 49.95°N, 19.85°EAmaral — 38.95°N, 9.07°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EOehrli — 47.23°N, 9.35°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EOehrli — 46.87°N, 8.43°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°EPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°EPakong — 31.74°N, 91.01°EBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EWhite 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°WLalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WSierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°WKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.28°N, 14.33°EKorycany — 49.97°N, 15.15°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EKorond — 33.92°N, 57.33°EAntalo — 13.62°N, 39.44°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.23°N, 20.93°EVršatec Limestone — 49.07°N, 18.15°EVršatec Limestone — 49.04°N, 18.16°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WAbadia — 39.02°N, 9.08°W

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The named rock units Stylinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 112 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 879 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylinidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

2,188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 451 sites for Stylinidae, 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

227 references

Each of the 1,545 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. 215 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 Stylinidae

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

No 3D scan of Stylinidae 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 itStylinina through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1851