Complexastrea hemisphaerica

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ComplexastreaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya149.2 Mya171.4 Mya144.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Complexastrea hemisphaerica on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

4 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

Massenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°E

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The named rock units Complexastrea hemisphaerica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Complexastrea hemisphaerica and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Complexastrea hemisphaerica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Complexastrea hemisphaerica, 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 4 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 Complexastrea hemisphaerica 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 Complexastrea hemisphaerica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Complexastrea hemisphaerica 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 itComplexastrea through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geyer 1954