Thysanus excentricus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThysanusPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB, for Faviidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Faviidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Faviidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
11 occurrences of Thysanus excentricus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Gurabo Formation4
- Old Pera Formation1
- Bowden Formation1
- La Cruz Formation1
- San Andres Formation1
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Thysanus excentricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thysanus excentricus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Thysanus excentricus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Porites astreoides4 sites
- Acropora cervicornis3 sites
- Manicina3 sites
- Manicina areolata3 sites
- Orbicella limbata3 sites
- Stephanocoenia intersepta3 sites
- Stylophora monticulosa3 sites
- Agaricia agaricites2 sites
- Antillia dentata2 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis2 sites
- Madracis myriaster2 sites
- Manicina puntagordensis2 sites
- Meandrina brasiliensis2 sites
- Placocyathus alveolus2 sites
- Placocyathus barretti2 sites
- Placocyathus costatus2 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis2 sites
- Porites baracoaensis2 sites
- Siderastrea siderea2 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni2 sites
- Stylophora affinis2 sites
- Stylophora granulata2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora palmata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Thysanus excentricus, 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
6 references- Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 19: The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) part II: The genera Caulastraea, Favia, Diploria, Thysanus, Hadrophyllia, Manicina and Colpophyllia4
- Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast Jamaica2
- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs2
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores1
- Riffbau und geologische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insel San Andres (westliches Karibisches Meer, Kolumbien) [Reef building and geological evolution of San Andres Island (western Caribbean Sea, Colombia)]1
Each of the 11 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No picture of Thysanus excentricus 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 Thysanus excentricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itThysanus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1863