Aquitanastraea piveteaui
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AquitanastraeaPBDB
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Aquitanastraea piveteaui on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aquitanastraea piveteaui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aquitanastraea piveteaui and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aquitanastraea piveteaui and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
320 taxa- Diploastrea diversiformis4 sites
- Favites neglecta4 sites
- Porites4 sites
- Porites collegniana4 sites
- Siderastrea miocenica4 sites
- Stylophora raristella4 sites
- Tarbellastraea ellisiana4 sites
- Turbinaria cyathiformis4 sites
- Acropora exarata3 sites
- Acropora lavandulina3 sites
- Favites3 sites
- Goniopora3 sites
- Heliastrea delicata3 sites
- Heliastrea nerthensis3 sites
- Lithophyllia3 sites
- Pocillopora madreporacea3 sites
- Solenastrea desmoulinsi3 sites
- Syzygophyllia elongata3 sites
- Tarbellastraea aquitaniensis3 sites
- Aquitanastraea pruvosti2 sites
- Aquitanophyllia grandistellae2 sites
- Aturia aturi2 sites
- Caulastrea matheroni2 sites
- Cladangia aquitaniensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aquitanastraea piveteaui, 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- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]4
- Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène2
Each of the 6 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 Aquitanastraea piveteaui
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Aquitanastraea piveteaui 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 itAquitanastraea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1954