Columastrea

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 36 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–127 Mya — about 3 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 7 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125.77 Mya33.9 Mya139 Mya21 Mya

36 occurrences of Columastrea 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

36 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

10 formations

Agrio — 37.67°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 38.37°S, 70.02°WAgrio — 37.87°S, 70.02°WAgrio — 37.65°S, 70.22°WSimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EBarranquín — 8.96°N, 63.55°WBajada del Agria — 38.47°S, 70.00°WLa Cadiere d'Azur — 43.20°N, 5.77°ESant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°EMatanomadh — 23.53°N, 68.95°EQahlah — 24.30°N, 55.86°EPabellón — 27.84°S, 70.32°W

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The named rock units Columastrea 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.

Columastrea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Columastrea, 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

24 references

Each of the 36 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. 12 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Columastrea 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 itColumastreidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849