Beneckastraea cassiana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeneckastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Beneckastraea
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Beneckastraea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Beneckastraea cassiana on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Beneckastraea cassiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Beneckastraea cassiana and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Beneckastraea cassiana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Alpinophyllia1 site
- Alpinophyllia plana1 site
- Andrazella labyrinthica1 site
- Beneckastraea beneckei1 site
- Cassianastraea reussi1 site
- Craspedophyllia alpina1 site
- Cyathocoenia1 site
- Guembelastraea guembeli1 site
- Koilocoenia decipiens1 site
- Margarophyllia1 site
- Margarophyllia capitata1 site
- Margarosmilia confluens1 site
- Margarosmilia richthofeni1 site
- Margarosmilia zieteni1 site
- Montlivaltia obliqua1 site
- Montlivaltia radiciformis1 site
- Myriophyllum1 site
- Omphalophyllia1 site
- Omphalophyllia boletiformis1 site
- Pinacophyllum1 site
- Protoheterastrea leonhardi1 site
- Quenstedtiphyllia1 site
- Remismilia sublaevis1 site
- Retiophyllia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Beneckastraea cassiana, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Beneckastraea cassiana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Beneckastraea cassiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itBeneckastraea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frech 1896)