Amphiastreidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachythecaliinaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 147 million years on record.
The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
369 occurrences of Amphiastreidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
369 occurrences- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Jurassic2%
- Middle Jurassic13%
- Late Jurassic49%
- Early Cretaceous32%
- Late Cretaceous3%
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
64 formations
- Stramberk Limestone Formation29
- Tataouine Formation18
- Antalo Formation10
- Slivnitsa Formation9
- Emen Formation · Lovech Urgonian Group9
- Schrattenkalk Formation7
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The named rock units Amphiastreidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 171 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amphiastreidae and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Amphiastreidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1,691 taxa- Amphiastrea piriformis27 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis21 sites
- Stylina21 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis20 sites
- Microsolena17 sites
- Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis16 sites
- Montlivaltia16 sites
- Adelocoenia limbata14 sites
- Mitrodendron14 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata14 sites
- Actinastrea crassoramosa13 sites
- Microsolena major13 sites
- Placophyllia rugosa13 sites
- Stylosmilia michelini13 sites
- Amphiastrea basaltiformis12 sites
- Serpulidae12 sites
- Thecosmilia12 sites
- Thecosmilia dichotoma12 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum11 sites
- Pleurophyllia trichotoma11 sites
- Stylina girodi11 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma11 sites
- Amphiastrea10 sites
- Brachiopoda10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Amphiastreidae, 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
109 references- Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]18
- Beiträge zur Korallenfauna des Stramberger Tithon17
- Sous-ordre Amphiastraeina Alloiteau, 1952 (Hexacorallia) des calcaires de Stramberk (Tithonien, Tchécoslovaquie)16
- Scleractinian corals of suborders Pachythecalina and Rhipidogyrina: discussion on similarities and description of species from Stramberk-Type Limestone, Polish Outer Carpathians14
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia12
- Etude des Madréporaires jurassiques du Sahara tunisien11
- Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities10
- Prolific development of pachythecaliines in Late Barremian, Bulgaria: coral taxonomy and sedimentary environment9
- Kimmeridgian-Valanginian reef corals from the Moesian Platform from Bulgaria9
- Korallen und Rudisten aus dem Apt im tertiären Flysch des Parnass-Gebirges bei Delphi-Arachowa (Mittelgriechenland)8
- Upper Barremian-lower Aptian scleractinian corals of central Europe (Schrattenkalk Fm., Helvetic Zone, Austria, Germany, Switzerland)7
- Revision of the Amphiastraeidae from the Monti d'Ocre area (Scleractinia; early Cretaceous)7
Each of the 369 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. 97 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
Media content0
No picture of Amphiastreidae 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 Amphiastreidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphiastreidae 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 itPachythecaliina through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilvie 1896