Isastrea explanata

Isastrea explanata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsastreaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 13 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 9 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165.3 Mya121.4 Mya169 Mya119 Mya

13 occurrences of Isastrea explanata 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

13 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

5 formations

Steeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WSchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.92°N, 57.30°E

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The named rock units Isastrea explanata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isastrea explanata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Isastrea explanata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

272 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Isastrea explanata, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Isastrea explanata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Isastrea explanata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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What may have been alongside itIsastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Muenster 1829)