Amphiastrea
Searched as Amphiastrea basaltiformis tatrensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Amphiastrea as the accepted name.
Wilson44691 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphiastreidaePBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya.
2 occurrences of Amphiastrea on record. 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Amphiastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
884 taxa- Stylina12 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis9 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum8 sites
- Stylina girodi8 sites
- Stylosmilia michelini8 sites
- Microphyllia undans7 sites
- Microsolena7 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis7 sites
- Actinastrea6 sites
- Actinastrea crassoramosa6 sites
- Aplosmilia semisulcata6 sites
- Axosmilia6 sites
- Heliocoenia6 sites
- Microsolena major6 sites
- Milleporidium6 sites
- Pruvostastraea labyrinthiformis6 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata6 sites
- Thamnasteria moreana6 sites
- Cryptocoenia castellum5 sites
- Montlivaltia5 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana5 sites
- Ovalastrea lobata5 sites
- Serpulidae5 sites
- Solenoporaceae5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Amphiastrea, 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
2 references- Sous-ordre Amphiastraeina Alloiteau, 1952 (Hexacorallia) des calcaires de Stramberk (Tithonien, Tchécoslovaquie)1
- Les madreporaires des calcaires urgoniens de la serie haut-tatrique dans la Tatra Polonaise [Corals from the Urgonian Limestones of the Polish Tatra Mountains]1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Amphiastrea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Wilson44691
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amphiastrea 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 itAmphiastreidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Étallon 1859