Alveolites saleei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlveolitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Alveolites saleei on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Pillara Formation1
- Sadler Limestone Formation1
- Burdekin Formation · Fanning River Group1
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The named rock units Alveolites saleei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alveolites saleei and its relatives
DevonianWhere Alveolites saleei and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Aulopora2 sites
- Disphyllum caespitosum2 sites
- Thamnopora2 sites
- <Stromatolites>1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alveolites suborbicularis1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Argutastrea hullensis1 site
- Aristophyllum menyouense1 site
- Careophyllum brevilamellatum1 site
- Catactotoechus1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Disphyllidae1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Disphyllum incomptum1 site
- Disphyllum intertextum1 site
- Disphyllum virgatum1 site
- Frutexites1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Hermatostroma1 site
- Hexagonaria1 site
- Hillastraea floriformis1 site
- Kuangxiastraea laciniosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alveolites saleei, 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
3 references- Unusual shallow water Devonian coral community from Queensland and its recent analogues from the inshore Great Barrier Reef1
- The history of Devonian-Carboniferous reef communities: extinctions, effects, recovery1
- Devonian corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia1
Each of the 3 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 Alveolites saleei 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 Alveolites saleei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alveolites saleei 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 itAlveolites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lecompte 1933