Leptastrea bottae
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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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Leptastrea bottae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Pleistocene83%
- Holocene17%
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.
Leptastrea bottae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Leptastrea bottae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Echinopora lamellosa2 sites
- Leptoria phrygia2 sites
- Platygyra daedalea2 sites
- Acropora hemprichii1 site
- Acropora lamarcki1 site
- Acropora nobilis1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Acropora variabilis microcalix1 site
- Acropora yongei1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Cyphastrea1 site
- Cyphastrea serailia1 site
- Danafungia scruposa1 site
- Dipsastraea favus1 site
- Dipsastraea speciosa1 site
- Euphyllia1 site
- Favia pallida denticulata1 site
- Favites abdita1 site
- Fungia fungites dentatopapillosa1 site
- Fungia fungites discus1 site
- Galaxea fascicularis1 site
- Galaxea fascicularis costulata n. ssp.1 site
- Goniastrea australensis1 site
- Goniastrea retiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Leptastrea bottae, 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
5 references- Ricerche eseguite negli anni 1941-1942 sopra i Coralli delle scogliere emerse di Massaua e Gibuti [Research done between 1941 and 1942 on emersed coral reefs of Massawa and Djibouti]2
- Symbiosis in the Fossil Record: Eocene Nummulites and Pleistocene Reefs of Egypt1
- Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and model for the deposition of the Abdur Reef Limestone: context for an important archaeological site from the last interglacial on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea1
- The Fossil Coral Reefs of Al-Aqaba, Jordan1
- Les Madreporaires fossiles de Mare [The fossil corals from Mare]1
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. 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 bottae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Leptastrea bottae 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)