Kuangxiastraea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhillipsastreidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
7 occurrences of Kuangxiastraea on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
7 formations
- Pillara Formation1
- Sadler Limestone Formation1
- Mostyn Vale Formation1
- Massenkalk Formation1
- Virgin Hills Formation1
- Candas Formation1
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The named rock units Kuangxiastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kuangxiastraea and its relatives
DevonianWhere Kuangxiastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Thamnophyllum3 sites
- Alveolites suborbicularis2 sites
- Aristophyllum menyouense2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- <Stromatolites>1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Alveolites saleei1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Ancyrodella1 site
- Ancyrodella curvata1 site
- Ancyrodella nodosa1 site
- Ancyrognathus1 site
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Argutastrea hullensis1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Careophyllum brevilamellatum1 site
- Catactotoechus1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Columnaria1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Disphyllum caespitosum1 site
- Disphyllum incomptum1 site
- Disphyllum intertextum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kuangxiastraea, 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
7 references- Phillipsastreids and Ptenophyllids (Rugosa) from the Givetian of Mauritania and Northwestern Spain1
- Microbial mounds prior to the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinctions, Hantang, Guilin, South China1
- Middle and Upper Devonian rugose corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia1
- Stratigraphie und Systematik rugoser Korallen aus dem Givetium und Unter-Frasnium des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges (Sauerland/Bergisches Land) [Stratigraphy and systematics of rugose corals from the Givetian and Lower Frasnian of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Sauerland/Bergisches Land)]1
- The history of Devonian-Carboniferous reef communities: extinctions, effects, recovery1
- Corals and conodonts from the Late Devonian Mostyn Vale Formation, Keepit, New South Wales1
- Devonian corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia1
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. 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.
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No picture of Kuangxiastraea 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 Kuangxiastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kuangxiastraea 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 itPhillipsastreidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yu and Kuang 1983)