Asterosmilia profunda

No picture of Asterosmilia profunda 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 Asterosmilia profunda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsterosmiliaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–8.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.333 Mya – 2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

13 occurrences of Asterosmilia profunda on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

13 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

5 formations

Escudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.08°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.04°W"Nivaje Shale" — 19.45°N, 70.70°W

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The named rock units Asterosmilia profunda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Asterosmilia profunda and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Asterosmilia profunda and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Asterosmilia profunda, 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

Each of the 13 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

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No picture of Asterosmilia profunda 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 Asterosmilia profunda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Asterosmilia profunda 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 itAsterosmilia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1864)