Leptastrea bewickensis

Leptastrea bewickensis

Larry Basch/NPS · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptastreaPBDB
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 least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13.82 Mya774 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Leptastrea bewickensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

2 formations

Yalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°E

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The named rock units Leptastrea bewickensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptastrea bewickensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Leptastrea bewickensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Leptastrea bewickensis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Leptastrea bewickensis

Credit
Larry Basch/NPS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Leptastrea bewickensis 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 itLeptastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Veron and Pichon 1977