Meandrastrea

Meandrastrea

Durand Delga · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
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 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous151–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–137 Mya — about 7 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya85.7 Mya151 Mya71 Mya

23 occurrences of Meandrastrea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

23 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

9 formations

Oehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EOehrli — 46.87°N, 8.43°ESidi Kralif — 35.43°N, 9.78°EKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.18°N, 14.20°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EBila hora — 49.97°N, 15.27°ELlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EErnstbrunn — 48.87°N, 16.67°EZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°E

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The named rock units Meandrastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrastrea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Meandrastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

293 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Meandrastrea, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Meandrastrea

Source
GBIF
Credit
Durand Delga
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meandrastrea 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 itThecosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849