Thamnoseris

Thamnoseris is an extinct genus of stony corals in the family Latomeandridae.

Thamnoseris

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 75 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 75 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 26 of 75 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 75 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 75 occurrencesLate Cretaceous177–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 11 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 7 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–141 Mya — about 3 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 7 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–77 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170.9 Mya83.6 Mya177 Mya70 Mya

75 occurrences of Thamnoseris on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

75 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

27 formations

Alikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°EAlikper — 35.47°N, 61.72°EMural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EHanifa — 25.02°N, 46.22°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EBenassal — 40.05°N, 0.15°ECamarena — 37.38°N, 4.78°WCerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WTheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WTichilesti — 44.42°N, 28.48°EVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WSchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°ELangshan — 32.42°N, 81.08°EGlen Rose Limestone — 30.00°N, 98.20°WHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°EGrabenbach — 47.57°N, 13.52°EYucunama — 17.55°N, 97.48°WPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°EPakong — 31.33°N, 90.15°E

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The named rock units Thamnoseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thamnoseris and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Thamnoseris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

941 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Thamnoseris, 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

48 references

Each of the 75 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. 36 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 Thamnoseris

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

No 3D scan of Thamnoseris 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLatomeandridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1861