Astrocoenia

Astrocoenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstrocoeniidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Astrocoeniidae

Time the record covers

At least 211 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 250 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 250 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 250 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 250 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 250 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 250 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 250 occurrencesEocene — about 91 of 250 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 80 of 250 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 250 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 250 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 250 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–162 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 6 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 17 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 20 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 26 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 54 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 65 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 19 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences215.38 Mya3.6 Mya232 Mya0 Mya

250 occurrences of Astrocoenia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

250 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

78 formations

Salcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°EAntigua — 17.13°N, 61.87°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.73°WAntigua — 17.14°N, 61.82°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WSiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WSiamaná — 12.03°N, 71.42°WCastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.50°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.57°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WGatuncillo — 9.27°N, 79.70°WGatuncillo — 9.13°N, 79.52°WQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WTokca — 38.05°N, 29.73°ETokca — 38.10°N, 29.77°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WCastro Limestone — 40.02°N, 18.43°E"Abu Tartur" — 25.47°N, 30.05°ENosoko — 24.42°N, 124.08°EGuayanilla — 18.02°N, 66.78°WGuayanilla — 17.97°N, 66.92°WAuradu Limestone — 10.33°N, 45.05°ETroy Limestone — 18.35°N, 77.27°WChattahoochee — 30.85°N, 84.62°WTrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°EKonglomeratbank — 48.53°N, 24.63°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°ETokça — 29.72°N, 38.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.10°ETabera — 19.60°N, 70.82°WTabera — 19.28°N, 70.70°WManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WSeroe Domi — 12.48°N, 69.96°W

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The named rock units Astrocoenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 102 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astrocoenia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Astrocoenia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,046 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Astrocoenia, 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

101 references

Each of the 250 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. 89 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 content1

Picture of Astrocoenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848