Heliastrea deformis
No picture of Heliastrea deformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Heliastrea deformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Heliastrea deformis 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Heliastrea deformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heliastrea deformis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heliastrea deformis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
218 taxa- Tarbellastraea aquitaniensis3 sites
- Defrancia irregularis2 sites
- Diploastrea burdigalensis2 sites
- Diploastrea diversiformis2 sites
- Diploastrea miocenica2 sites
- Diploastrea taurinensis2 sites
- Diploastrea variabilis2 sites
- Favites2 sites
- Favites neglecta2 sites
- Heliastrea (Athecastraea)2 sites
- Porites collegniana2 sites
- Stylophora raristella2 sites
- Tarbellastraea abditaxis2 sites
- Tarbellastraea conoidea2 sites
- Tarbellastraea eggenburgensis2 sites
- Tarbellastraea ellisiana2 sites
- Tarbellastraea raulini2 sites
- Tarbellastraea reussiana2 sites
- Tarbellastraea tenera2 sites
- Acanthastrea crenulata1 site
- Acanthastrea termofurae1 site
- Acropora bonellii1 site
- Acropora exarata1 site
- Acropora lavandulina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heliastrea deformis, 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
3 references- Western mediterranean reef complexes1
- Oligocene carbonate buildups of the Sirt Basin, Libya1
- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]1
Each of the 3 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 Heliastrea deformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Heliastrea deformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliastrea deformis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeliastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961