Trochosmilia oldhami
No picture of Trochosmilia oldhami was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Trochosmilia oldhami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochosmiliaPBDB
- 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 most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Trochosmilia oldhami 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Trochosmilia oldhami and its relatives
EoceneWhere Trochosmilia oldhami and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Caulastrea1 site
- Cunnolites1 site
- Cycloseris perezi1 site
- Favites1 site
- Goniastrea insignis1 site
- Goniopora nodulosa1 site
- Meandrina1 site
- Montlivaltia1 site
- Paracycloseris nariensis1 site
- Platygyra concentrica1 site
- Rhabdophyllia nariensis1 site
- Stylocoenia taurinensis1 site
- Stylophora pulcherrima1 site
- Trochocyathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Trochosmilia oldhami, 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
2 references- A Bükkhegyseg Eocen Koralljai [Eocene corals from the Bükk Mountains]1
- Sind fossil corals and Alcyonaria1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Trochosmilia oldhami was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Trochosmilia oldhami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTrochosmilia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1880