Craterastraea crateriformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CraterastraeaPBDB
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 7 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–167 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya119.57 Mya169 Mya109 Mya

9 occurrences of Craterastraea crateriformis 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

9 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

7 formations

Baghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EMughanniyya — 32.20°N, 35.62°EJaisalmer — 26.95°N, 70.88°E

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The named rock units Craterastraea crateriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Craterastraea crateriformis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Craterastraea crateriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Craterastraea crateriformis, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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

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

No 3D scan of Craterastraea crateriformis 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 itCraterastraea through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1900)