Dimorphastrea irradians
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
2 occurrences of Dimorphastrea irradians on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dimorphastrea irradians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dimorphastrea irradians and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Dimorphastrea irradians and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Astrocoenia1 site
- Astrocoenia spongilla1 site
- Corallinaceae1 site
- Manicina hydnophoroidea1 site
- Montastraea1 site
- Pachygyra savii1 site
- Siderastrea1 site
- Stelidioseris decaphylla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dimorphastrea irradians, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Paleocene coral reefs and related facies associations, Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt1
- Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen, 1: Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichten von Castelgomberto [Paleontological studies about the older Tertiary beds in the Alps, 1: The fossil Anthozoa from the Castelcomberto Formation]1
Each of the 2 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 Dimorphastrea irradians 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 Dimorphastrea irradians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimorphastrea irradians 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 itDimorphastrea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1868