Actinacis cognata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinacisPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinacididae
- Life habit
- epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinacididae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Actinacididae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
27 occurrences of Actinacis cognata 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
27 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
7 formations
- Trstelj Formation · Kras Group3
- Santo Spirito Formation1
- Submenilitic Formation1
- Calcares marins à alvéolines Formation1
- Borova Formation1
- Tossa Formation1
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The named rock units Actinacis cognata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Actinacis cognata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Actinacis cognata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Siderofungia6 sites
- Alveolina5 sites
- Dasycladales5 sites
- Goniopora5 sites
- Miliolida5 sites
- Pachygyra5 sites
- Parachaetetes5 sites
- Peyssonneliaceae5 sites
- Cladocora tenuis4 sites
- Goniopora elegans4 sites
- Porites4 sites
- Cladocora3 sites
- Cyathoseris3 sites
- Agathiphyllia bosniaca2 sites
- Astreopora tecta2 sites
- Astrocoenia2 sites
- Astrocoenia lobatorotundata2 sites
- Cymopolia2 sites
- Dendracis2 sites
- Ellipsocoenia2 sites
- Euphyllia2 sites
- Goniopora ameliana2 sites
- Isis2 sites
- Montastraea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Actinacis cognata, 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
13 references- Coralgal buildups associated with the Bolca Fossil-Lagerstatten: new evidence from the Ypresion of Monte Postale (NE Italy)5
- The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (Uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): Environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM?4
- Facies architecture and coral distiburion in a mid Eocene reef tract, south Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain)4
- A coral hotspot from a hot past: The EECO and post-EECO rich reef coral fauna from Friuli (Eocene, NE Italy)2
- Coralgal buildups associated with the Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätten: new evidence from the Ypresian of Monte Postale (NE Italy)2
- Lutetian corals from Crni Kal in Yugoslavia2
- A Bükkhegyseg Eocen Koralljai [Eocene corals from the Bükk Mountains]2
- Palaeocene reef complex of the Western Carpathians1
- Formas anomalas en los corales eocenos de la Cuenca de Igualada (Noreste de Espania)1
- Eocenni korali z lokality u obce Jaseno, Borovske souvrstvi (Podtatranska Skupina) [Eocene corals from the locality near Jaseno, Borova Formation (Sub-Tatra Group)]1
- Paleocene reefs on the Maiella Platform margin, Italy: An example of the effects of the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary events on reefs and carbonate platforms1
- Hexacorallia et octocorallia du Paleogene des Carpates externes [Paleogene corals of the Outer Carpathians]1
Each of the 27 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. 1 further reference is 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
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No picture of Actinacis cognata 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 Actinacis cognata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinacis cognata 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 itActinacis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oppenheim 1901