Columactinastraea formosissima

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColumactinastraeaPBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86.2 Mya71.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Columactinastraea formosissima 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

3 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

1 formation

Vallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°E

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The named rock units Columactinastraea formosissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Columactinastraea formosissima and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Columactinastraea formosissima, 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

2 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Columactinastraea formosissima 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 itColumactinastraea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1831)