Margarastraea

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecosmiliidaePBDB
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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 8 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEarly Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233.6 Mya199.5 Mya237.9 Mya192 Mya

8 occurrences of Margarastraea 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

8 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

7 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°EMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.83°WChocolate — 16.27°S, 71.72°WDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EBaldonnel — 56.05°N, 123.01°WMartin Bridge — 45.10°N, 116.78°WNehenta — 55.16°N, 131.75°W

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The named rock units Margarastraea 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.

Margarastraea and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Margarastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Margarastraea, 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

Each of the 8 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 content0

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itThecosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1896