Columactinastraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinastreidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Actinastreidae

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 43 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 43 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 43 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence154.8 Mya72.2 Mya163 Mya64 Mya

43 occurrences of Columactinastraea 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

43 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

17 formations

Vallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°ESimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°ECerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WMural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WOrbitolina Limestone — 33.05°N, 51.95°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°ETisje — 11.03°N, 49.05°EGrabenbach — 47.57°N, 13.52°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EBenassal — 40.55°N, 0.70°WVillarroya de los Pinares — 40.53°N, 0.70°WOcozocoautla — 16.82°N, 93.42°WAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°ESimsima — 24.48°N, 55.92°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°E

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The named rock units Columactinastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columactinastraea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Columactinastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

628 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Columactinastraea, 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

25 references

Each of the 43 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. 13 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

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

No 3D scan of Columactinastraea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itActinastreidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1952