Astrangia cretacea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstrangiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
6 occurrences of Astrangia cretacea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous67%
- Paleocene33%
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
- Agatdal Formation2
- Marshalltown Formation · Matawan Group1
- Neylandville Marl Formation1
- Woodbury Formation · Matawan Group1
- Merchantville Formation1
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The named rock units Astrangia cretacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astrangia cretacea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Astrangia cretacea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
280 taxa- Turritella3 sites
- Amaurellina2 sites
- Anomia argentaria2 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)2 sites
- Boltenella2 sites
- Cominella2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Ellipsoscapha2 sites
- Emarginula (Semperia)2 sites
- Epitonium (Coniscala)2 sites
- Ficopsis (Fulguroficus)2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Flabellum anderssoni2 sites
- Fusinus2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Grandipatula2 sites
- Haplovoluta2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Lunatia2 sites
- Mesalia2 sites
- Neptunea (Trophonopsis)2 sites
- Nipteraxis2 sites
- Oculina becki2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Astrangia cretacea, 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
4 references- Scleractinian corals from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary of Nugssuaq, West Greenland2
- Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States2
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary1
- Some Upper Cretaceous corals from New Jersey1
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. 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 Astrangia cretacea 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 Astrangia cretacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astrangia cretacea 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 itAstrangia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bölsche 1870)