Fungiastraea arachnoides

Fungiastraea arachnoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FungiastraeaPBDB
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 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 33 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 31 of 33 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 33 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 5 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 8 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 8 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 5 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–147 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170.9 Mya119.57 Mya176 Mya109 Mya

33 occurrences of Fungiastraea arachnoides 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

33 occurrences

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

11 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.18°N, 9.60°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 51.97°N, 9.62°ECabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WUrtabulak — 38.92°N, 64.85°EUrtabulak — 38.93°N, 64.48°ECoralline Oolite — 54.25°N, 0.47°WSteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WPu Khloe Phi — 16.07°N, 98.70°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EWheatley Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.20°WEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Fungiastraea arachnoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fungiastraea arachnoides and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Fungiastraea arachnoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

476 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Fungiastraea arachnoides, 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

20 references

Each of the 33 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 Fungiastraea arachnoides

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GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fungiastraea arachnoides 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 itFungiastraea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parkinson 1808)