Frechastraea pentagona
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FrechastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
5 occurrences of Frechastraea pentagona on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Frechastraea pentagona 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.
Frechastraea pentagona and its relatives
DevonianWhere Frechastraea pentagona and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Alveolites2 sites
- Alveolites edwardsi frasnianus1 site
- Alveolites taenioformis minor1 site
- Alveolites tenuissimus1 site
- Amphissites1 site
- Aristophyllum1 site
- Astyloscyphia irregularia1 site
- Astyloscyphia turbinata1 site
- Astylotuba modica1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Aulocystis1 site
- Auloporidae1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdiocypris1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Buregia1 site
- Clathrocoilona1 site
- Conicospongia annulata1 site
- Cordiospongia conica1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Devonoscyphia regulara1 site
- Devonoscyphia sanctacrucensis1 site
- Diffusolasma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Frechastraea pentagona, 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
4 references- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores2
- Devonian of the Mechra Ben Abbou region (Rehamna) – new data on the reef succession, microfacies, stratigraphy, and palaeogeography1
- Der Massenkalk (Devon) nördlich von Brilon (Sauerland) [The Devonian Massenkalk north of Brilon (Sauerland)]1
- Rugose coral Cyathophyllum diffusum sp. n. from the Frasnian deposits of the Holy Cross Mountains1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Frechastraea pentagona 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 Frechastraea pentagona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Frechastraea pentagona 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 itFrechastraea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)