Ovalastrea lobata
Searched as Favia lobata. The Paleobiology Database treats Ovalastrea lobata as the accepted name.
No picture of Ovalastrea lobata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ovalastrea lobata itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ovalastrea lobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OvalastreaPBDB
- 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 106 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
13 occurrences of Ovalastrea lobata on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
13 occurrences- Late Jurassic92%
- Eocene8%
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
5 formations
- Sao Romao Formation2
- Massenkalk Formation1
- Korallenoolith Formation1
- Pteroceriano Formation1
- Submenilitic Formation1
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The named rock units Ovalastrea lobata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ovalastrea lobata and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Ovalastrea lobata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
279 taxa- Amphiastrea piriformis5 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis5 sites
- Stephanastrea ramulifera5 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum4 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata4 sites
- Stylina girodi4 sites
- Actinastrea3 sites
- Actinastrea crassoramosa3 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea3 sites
- Adelocoenia limbata3 sites
- Adelocoenia parvistella3 sites
- Calamophylliopsis stockesi3 sites
- Comoseris minima3 sites
- Epistreptophyllum tenue3 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis3 sites
- Montlivaltia obconica3 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana3 sites
- Ovalastrea caryophylloides3 sites
- Ovalastrea michelini3 sites
- Pleurosmilia crassa3 sites
- Pteroperna3 sites
- Rhipidogyra costata3 sites
- Serpulidae3 sites
- Stylina parviramosa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ovalastrea lobata, 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
9 references- Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]4
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia2
- Die Korallenfauna des Korallenooliths (Oxfordium, Oberjura, NW-Deutschland): Zusammensetzung, Stratigraphie und regionale Verbreitung1
- Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 21
- Facies, stratigraphy and paleogeographic analysis of Upper? Kimmeridgian to Upper Portlandian sediments in the environs of Arruda dos Vinhos, Estremadura, Portugal1
- Palökologische und biofazielle Analyse des Kimmeridge (Oberjura) von Consolacao, Mittelportugal [Paleoecological and biofacies analysis of the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Consolacao, central Portugal]1
- Hexacorallia et octocorallia du Paleogene des Carpates externes [Paleogene corals of the Outer Carpathians]1
- Korallenfaunen aus dem Oberen Jura von Portugal1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfauna von Württemberg1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Ovalastrea lobata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ovalastrea lobata itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ovalastrea lobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itOvalastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koby 1884)