Stylosmilia michelini

No picture of Stylosmilia michelini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Stylosmilia michelini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylosmiliaPBDB
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 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 40 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 36 of 40 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 40 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 7 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 9 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 9 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.2 Mya145.06 Mya194 Mya131 Mya

40 occurrences of Stylosmilia michelini 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

40 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

10 formations

Sao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°EPakong — 31.74°N, 91.01°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.80°EXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°EAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WDoi Yot — 16.75°N, 98.62°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°EDomvrena Marble — 38.35°N, 22.98°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Stylosmilia michelini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylosmilia michelini and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

443 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Stylosmilia michelini, 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

18 references

Each of the 40 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. 6 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Stylosmilia michelini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Stylosmilia michelini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stylosmilia michelini 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