Actinastrea crassoramosa

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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 least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 5 of 42 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 36 of 42 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 42 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–157 Mya — about 6 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 14 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 6 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya119.57 Mya172 Mya109 Mya

42 occurrences of Actinastrea crassoramosa on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

42 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

11 formations

Antalo — 13.63°N, 39.42°EAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WSanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EHanifa — 25.25°N, 46.00°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°E

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The named rock units Actinastrea crassoramosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinastrea crassoramosa and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Actinastrea crassoramosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

530 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Actinastrea crassoramosa, 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

16 references

Each of the 42 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. 4 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

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No picture of Actinastrea crassoramosa 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 crassoramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinastrea crassoramosa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itActinastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelin 1844)