Diploastrea crassolamellata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiploastreaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
28 occurrences of Diploastrea crassolamellata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
28 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
11 formations
- Antigua Formation11
- La Quinta Formation · Simojovel Group2
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group2
- San Andres Formation2
- Siamaná Formation2
- Gatuncillo Formation1
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The named rock units Diploastrea crassolamellata 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.
Diploastrea crassolamellata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Diploastrea crassolamellata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Antiguastrea cellulosa6 sites
- Montastraea endothecata4 sites
- Pironastrea antiguensis4 sites
- Porites waylandi4 sites
- Acropora panamensis3 sites
- Actinacis barretti3 sites
- Agathiphyllia hilli3 sites
- Agathiphyllia tenuis3 sites
- Alveopora3 sites
- Astreopora3 sites
- Colpophyllia willoughbiensis3 sites
- Favites polygonalis3 sites
- Goniopora3 sites
- Leptoria spenceri3 sites
- Leptoseris portoricensis3 sites
- Montastraea3 sites
- Siderastrea conferta3 sites
- Stylophora minor3 sites
- Trachyphyllia3 sites
- Acropora saludensis2 sites
- Agathiphyllia anguillensis2 sites
- Agathiphyllia antiguensis2 sites
- Alveopora chiapanecae2 sites
- Alveopora tampae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Diploastrea crassolamellata, 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
10 references- Reef-coral diversity in the Late Oligocene Antigua Formation and temporal variation of local diversity on Caribbean Cenozoic Reefs7
- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs7
- Cenozoic Reef Biofacies3
- Early Miocene shallow-water corals from La Guajira, Colombia: part I, Acroporidae–Montastraeidae2
- The Oligocene-Miocene Transition on Coral Reefs in the Falcon Basin (NM Venezuela)2
- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica2
- Riffbau und geologische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insel San Andres (westliches Karibisches Meer, Kolumbien) [Reef building and geological evolution of San Andres Island (western Caribbean Sea, Colombia)]2
- Patch-reef communities and succession in the Oligocene of Antigua, West Indies1
- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)1
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.1
Each of the 28 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 Diploastrea crassolamellata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Diploastrea crassolamellata 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 itDiploastrea through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1863)