Trochosmilia

Trochosmilia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 124 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 76 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 76 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 76 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 76 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 76 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 76 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 76 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 5 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences145.06 Mya20.45 Mya152 Mya13 Mya

76 occurrences of Trochosmilia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

76 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

22 formations

Promina — 43.85°N, 16.15°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EKiamichi — 34.07°N, 102.85°WKiamichi — 33.12°N, 101.82°WKiamichi — 33.92°N, 102.47°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ESandgate — 51.23°N, 0.58°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EGashr Ghand — 26.02°N, 61.01°EMesilla Valley Shale — 31.45°N, 106.55°WSmeltertown — 31.45°N, 106.55°WDenison — 32.79°N, 97.32°WZongshan — 28.30°N, 88.53°EMandrikovka — 48.45°N, 34.98°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EYokonuma — 38.83°N, 141.62°EMancos Shale — 37.60°N, 111.97°WTucumcari — 35.11°N, 103.33°WTarbur — 29.20°N, 58.30°E

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The named rock units Trochosmilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trochosmilia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Trochosmilia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

857 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Trochosmilia, 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

46 references

Each of the 76 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. 34 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 Trochosmilia

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

No 3D scan of Trochosmilia 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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What may have been alongside itMontlivaltiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848