Trochoseris

Trochoseris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgariciidaePBDB
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 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 58 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 58 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 58 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 58 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 58 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93.9 Mya11.63 Mya102 Mya3 Mya

58 occurrences of Trochoseris on record, most of them in the Late 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

58 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

23 formations

Guinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.25°N, 77.92°WOcozocoautla — 16.80°N, 93.37°WPirabas — 0.77°S, 47.18°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°W"Catadupa Beds" — 18.28°N, 77.88°WPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.10°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°ESalt Mountain Limestone — 31.43°N, 87.92°WTagpochau — 15.18°N, 145.76°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WSomerset — 18.22°N, 77.10°WMandrikovka — 48.45°N, 34.98°EIxtaclum Shale — 17.05°N, 92.72°WRestin — 4.65°S, 81.30°WSaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EBuda Limestone — 30.28°N, 97.75°WCardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WGhazij — 30.13°N, 67.26°ESareweh — 7.75°S, 110.13°Esachun — 29.19°N, 52.88°E

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The named rock units Trochoseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trochoseris and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Trochoseris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

679 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Trochoseris, 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

33 references

Each of the 58 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. 21 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 Trochoseris

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

No 3D scan of Trochoseris was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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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What may have been alongside itAgariciidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849