Astrangia leonensis
No picture of Astrangia leonensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 leonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 1.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Astrangia leonensis 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
- Tamiami Formation2
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
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The named rock units Astrangia leonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astrangia leonensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Astrangia leonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Akleistostoma erici1 site
- Ecphora quadricostata1 site
- Paracyathus vaughani1 site
- Phyllangia blakei1 site
- Planecphora mansfieldi1 site
- Pterorhytis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Astrangia leonensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Petuch, 20031
- Late Cenozoic corals of south Florida1
- Corals from the Chipola and Jackson Bluff Formations of Florida1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Astrangia leonensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 leonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astrangia leonensis 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weisbord 1971