Eosiderastrea stefani
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EosiderastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Siderastreidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Siderastreidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Eosiderastrea stefani on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 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
- Espinazo del Diablo Formation · Lampazos Group2
- Branderfleck Formation1
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The named rock units Eosiderastrea stefani 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.
Eosiderastrea stefani and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Eosiderastrea stefani and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Apoplacophyllia hackemesseri1 site
- Cladophyllia clemencia1 site
- Eocolumastrea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eosiderastrea stefani, 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
3 references- Middle Albian corals from the Espinazo del Diablo Formation (Lampazos Area, Sonora, Mexico)2
- Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version1
- Early Cenomanian coral faunas from Nea Nikopoli (Kozani, Greece; Cretaceous)1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Eosiderastrea stefani 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 Eosiderastrea stefani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eosiderastrea stefani 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 itEosiderastrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loeser 2016