Actinastrea cavernata
No picture of Actinastrea cavernata 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 Actinastrea cavernata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Actinastreidae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Actinastrea cavernata 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
1 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Actinastrea cavernata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actinastrea cavernata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Actinastrea cavernata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Actinacis cognata1 site
- Actinacis parvulina1 site
- Actinastrea inrasa1 site
- Astreopora decaphylla1 site
- Cyathoseris oppenheimi1 site
- Dimorphastrea1 site
- Favia costata1 site
- Favia lobata1 site
- Favia macrotheca1 site
- Favia profunda1 site
- Hydnophyllon splendidum1 site
- Ixogyra ypsiloni1 site
- Leptophyllon barocum1 site
- Lobopsammia cariosa1 site
- Matejkia gigantea1 site
- Parapolytremacis bellardii1 site
- Parastraeopora chmeliki1 site
- Plavecia inaequalis1 site
- Plavecia submenilitica1 site
- Reussiphyllon reisi1 site
- Siderofungia bella1 site
- Stylocoenia saxulensis1 site
- Stylophora compressa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Actinastrea cavernata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Actinastrea cavernata 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 Actinastrea cavernata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinastrea cavernata 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 itActinastrea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eliášová 1974)