Kompsasteria oligocystis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KompsasteriaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Kompsasteria oligocystis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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- Late Triassic100%
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 Kompsasteria oligocystis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kompsasteria oligocystis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Kompsasteria oligocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Crassistella juvavica2 sites
- Distichomeandra minor2 sites
- Distichophyllia norica2 sites
- Gablonzeria profunda2 sites
- Kuhnastraea decussata2 sites
- Retiophyllia frechi2 sites
- Retiophyllia norica2 sites
- Retiophyllia robusta2 sites
- Alpinophyllia flexuosa1 site
- Alpinoseris dendroidea1 site
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Chondrocoenia1 site
- Chondrocoenia ohmanni1 site
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli1 site
- Coccophyllum sturi1 site
- Coryphyllina rhaetica1 site
- Crassistella1 site
- Cuifastraea arthaberi1 site
- Cuifia columnaris1 site
- Cycliphyllia cyclica1 site
- Cycliphyllia major1 site
- Dagyspirifer fascicostata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kompsasteria oligocystis, 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- Systematic analysis of upper triassic silicified scleractinian corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander Terrane, Alaska and British Columbia1
- Triassic Corals of the Zlambach Beds, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria1
Each 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. 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 Kompsasteria oligocystis 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 Kompsasteria oligocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kompsasteria oligocystis 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 itKompsasteria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frech 1890)