Diploastrea

Diploastrea is the only genus of corals in its monotypic family, Diploastreidae, containing the extant Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck, 1816) and the extinct Diploastrea polygonalis (Martin, 1880).

Diploastrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiploastraeidaePBDB
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 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 209 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 209 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 209 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 209 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 57 of 209 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 100 of 209 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 209 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 209 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 5 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 31 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 40 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 47 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 20 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences119.57 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

209 occurrences of Diploastrea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

209 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

42 formations

Antigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WAntigua — 17.10°N, 61.70°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ECala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°EFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WSiamaná — 12.06°N, 71.42°WSiamaná — 12.03°N, 71.42°WSiamaná — 11.83°N, 71.40°WRudeis — 26.08°N, 34.22°ERudeis — 25.95°N, 34.30°ERudeis — 24.80°N, 35.02°ERudeis — 24.42°N, 35.20°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WSant Elm — 39.75°N, 2.63°EQom — 34.64°N, 50.72°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.38°N, 97.37°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WCastro Limestone — 40.00°N, 18.42°ELa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.68°WSan Luis — 11.07°N, 69.88°WSan Luis — 11.17°N, 69.68°WYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°EYalam — 4.47°S, 151.88°EUm ad Dahiy — 29.75°N, 18.13°EMaradah — 29.67°N, 18.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°EGuayanilla — 18.02°N, 66.78°WGuayanilla — 17.97°N, 66.92°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WCastillo — 11.00°N, 70.50°WComanche Peak Limestone — 30.88°N, 103.02°WComanche Peak Limestone — 30.77°N, 102.98°WTokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WJebel Kibrit — 28.17°N, 35.17°E

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The named rock units Diploastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 81 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diploastrea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diploastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

873 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Diploastrea, 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

73 references

Each of the 209 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. 61 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 content2

Picture of Diploastrea

Credit
Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiploastraeidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthai 1914