Heliastrea mellahica
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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 least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
7 occurrences of Heliastrea mellahica 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heliastrea mellahica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliastrea mellahica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heliastrea mellahica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Heliastrea oligophylla5 sites
- Mussismilia vindobonensis5 sites
- Tarbellastraea5 sites
- Tarbellastraea reussiana5 sites
- Porites4 sites
- Lithothamnion3 sites
- Heliastrea cf. oligophylla major2 sites
- Lithophyllia gigas2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pecten2 sites
- Solenastrea romettensis2 sites
- Acanthastrea dausi1 site
- Agathelia1 site
- Agathiphyllia gregaria1 site
- Anisocoenia1 site
- Antiguastrea1 site
- Astreopora decaphylla1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Defrancia irregularis1 site
- Dictyoastraea1 site
- Diploastrea incerta1 site
- Diploastrea roasendai1 site
- Diploastrea taurinensis1 site
- Diploastrea variabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Heliastrea mellahica, 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
2 references- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]6
- Oligocene carbonate buildups of the Sirt Basin, Libya1
Each of the 7 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
Media content0
No picture of Heliastrea mellahica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heliastrea mellahica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliastrea mellahica was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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. Gregory 1906