Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MulticolumnastraeaPBDB
- 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 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
21 occurrences of Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis on record, most of them in the Late 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
21 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Cardenas Formation3
- Ocozocoautla Formation2
- Guinea Corn Formation1
- Titanosarcolites Limestone Formation1
- Vallcarga Formation1
- Hochmoos Formation · Gosau Group1
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The named rock units Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Actinacis martiniana3 sites
- Dictuophyllia conferticostata3 sites
- Actinhelia elegans2 sites
- Astraraea media2 sites
- Aulosmilia aspera2 sites
- Biradiolites2 sites
- Cladocora gracilis2 sites
- Columactinastraea2 sites
- Cunnolites polymorphus2 sites
- Heterocoenia exigua2 sites
- Heterocoenia verrucosa2 sites
- Hydnophora styriaca2 sites
- Neithea2 sites
- Orbignygyra tenella2 sites
- Palaeosiderofungia exigua2 sites
- Phyllosmilia didymophila2 sites
- Acrosmilia elongata1 site
- Actinacis haueri1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Actinastrea bastidensis1 site
- Actinastrea benaixensis1 site
- Actinastrea elongata1 site
- Actinastrea exigua1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis, 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
12 references- pers. comm.6
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary corals of New Zealand3
- Depositional environment of coral-rudist associations in the Upper Cretaceous Cardenas Formation (central Mexico)2
- Some Cretaceous and Eocene corals from Jamaica2
- Corals from the Maastrichtian Ocozocoautla Formation (Chiapas, Mexico) – a closer look1
- Scleractinian corals from the Cardenas Formation (Maastrichtian), San Luis Potosi, Mexico1
- Corals from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Ocozocoautla Formation, Chiapas, Mexico1
- Taxonomie und Ontogenie von Korallen der ostalpinen Oberkreide (Hochmoos- und Grabenbachschichten, Gosau Gruppe, Santon)1
- A new coral fauna of the Campanian from north Spain (Torallola village, Prov. Llèida)1
- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56)1
- Stratigraphy, sedimentation, and structure of Late Cretaceous rocks in eastern Puerto Rico - preliminary report1
- On a new Brachyurous Crustacean from the Upper Cretaceous of Jamaica1
Each of the 21 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
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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 Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Multicolumnastraea cyathiformis 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 itMulticolumnastraea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1865)