Isastrea richardsoni

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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 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 16 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous195–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 6 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya119.57 Mya195 Mya108 Mya

16 occurrences of Isastrea richardsoni 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

16 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

Sanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°E

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The named rock units Isastrea richardsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isastrea richardsoni and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Isastrea richardsoni, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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

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No picture of Isastrea richardsoni 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 Isastrea richardsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Isastrea richardsoni 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.

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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. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)