Isastrea marcoui

Isastrea marcoui

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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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184.2 Mya170.9 Mya193.4 Mya167.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Isastrea marcoui on record, most of them in the Middle 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

6 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

1 formation

Hauptraugenstein — 47.48°N, 7.95°E

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The named rock units Isastrea marcoui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isastrea marcoui and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Isastrea marcoui and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Isastrea marcoui, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Isastrea marcoui

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iDigBio
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Isastrea marcoui 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 itIsastrea through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1885