Thecosmilia densa

Thecosmilia densa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecosmiliaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya100.5 Mya144 Mya93 Mya

5 occurrences of Thecosmilia densa 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

5 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.

Thecosmilia densa and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Thecosmilia densa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Thecosmilia densa, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 Thecosmilia densa

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

No 3D scan of Thecosmilia densa 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1870