Clausastrea plana

No picture of Clausastrea plana 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 Clausastrea plana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119.57 Mya85.7 Mya126.6 Mya82.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Clausastrea plana on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

3 formations

Schrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°EFiguieres — 43.33°N, 5.20°E

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

Clausastrea plana and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Clausastrea plana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Clausastrea plana, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 Clausastrea plana 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 Clausastrea plana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Clausastrea plana 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 itClausastrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Fromentel 1877)