Confusastrea

Confusastrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontlivaltiidaePBDB
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 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 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 10 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya149.2 Mya171.5 Mya142.5 Mya

15 occurrences of Confusastrea 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

15 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

White Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°W

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The named rock units Confusastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Confusastrea and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Confusastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Confusastrea, 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

8 references

Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Confusastrea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Confusastrea 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 itMontlivaltiidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

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