Heliastrea laticosta
No picture of Heliastrea laticosta 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 Heliastrea laticosta, 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 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Heliastrea laticosta 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Heliastrea laticosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heliastrea laticosta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heliastrea laticosta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
254 taxa- Aquitanastraea piveteaui2 sites
- Aquitanophyllia grandistellae2 sites
- Diploastrea burdigalensis2 sites
- Diploastrea diversiformis2 sites
- Diploastrea roasendai2 sites
- Diploastrea taurinensis2 sites
- Diploastrea variabilis2 sites
- Favites neglecta2 sites
- Heliastrea delicata2 sites
- Paleoastroides subirregularis2 sites
- Pavona2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Porites collegniana2 sites
- Siderastrea miocenica2 sites
- Solenastrea desmoulinsi2 sites
- Stylophora raristella2 sites
- Syzygophyllia elongata2 sites
- Tarbellastraea aquitaniensis2 sites
- Tarbellastraea distans2 sites
- Tarbellastraea eggenburgensis2 sites
- Tarbellastraea ellisiana2 sites
- Tarbellastraea raulini2 sites
- Turbinaria cyathiformis2 sites
- Acanthastrea crenulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heliastrea laticosta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Heliastrea laticosta 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 Heliastrea laticosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliastrea laticosta 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 itHeliastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961