Stylosmilia

Stylosmilia

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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 136 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 216 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 216 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 11 of 216 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 155 of 216 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 37 of 216 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 216 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 216 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 216 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 3 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–178 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences178–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 8 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 45 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 65 occurrences151–146 Mya — about 28 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 20 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 13 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 9 occurrences130–125 Mya — about 4 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192.9 Mya56 Mya204 Mya45 Mya

216 occurrences of Stylosmilia 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

216 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

45 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°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°EOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°ELalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EOehrli — 46.87°N, 8.43°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°EAlikper — 35.47°N, 61.72°EAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°ECabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.13°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°EChay — 46.10°N, 1.13°WXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°EGurumdy — 37.78°N, 73.55°ESao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WDoi Yot — 16.75°N, 98.62°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°EPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°EPakong — 31.74°N, 91.01°EBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WCalcaires à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°EMarnes à coraux de Foug — 48.68°N, 5.78°ESt. Ursanne — 47.41°N, 7.42°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EOta Limestone — 39.07°N, 9.00°W

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The named rock units Stylosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 126 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylosmilia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 122 sites for Stylosmilia, 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

80 references

Each of the 216 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. 68 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 Stylosmilia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stylosmilia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848