Diploastrea incerta
No picture of Diploastrea incerta 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 Diploastrea incerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Diploastrea incerta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Diploastrea incerta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diploastrea incerta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diploastrea incerta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Diploastrea roasendai2 sites
- Heliastrea2 sites
- Montastrea tchihatcheffi2 sites
- Tarbellastraea2 sites
- Tarbellastraea reussiana2 sites
- Acanthastrea crenulata1 site
- Acanthastrea dausi1 site
- Acanthastrea termofurae1 site
- Acropora bonellii1 site
- Acropora exarata1 site
- Acropora lavandulina1 site
- Anomocora rarogemmans1 site
- Aquitanastraea1 site
- Aquitanastraea incrustans1 site
- Aquitanastraea piveteaui1 site
- Aquitanastraea pruvosti1 site
- Aquitanastraea tenuitabulata1 site
- Aquitanophyllia grandistellae1 site
- Astrhelia1 site
- Astrhelia neglecta1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cornurupicaprae1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Diploastrea incerta, 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
1 referenceEach 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
Media content0
No picture of Diploastrea incerta 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 Diploastrea incerta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diploastrea incerta 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Osasco 1897)