Ovalastrea caryophylloides

No picture of Ovalastrea caryophylloides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ovalastrea caryophylloides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OvalastreaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 17 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 20 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous159–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 5 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya121.4 Mya158.8 Mya112.3 Mya

20 occurrences of Ovalastrea caryophylloides on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

20 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

4 formations

Alcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Ovalastrea caryophylloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ovalastrea caryophylloides and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ovalastrea caryophylloides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ovalastrea caryophylloides, 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

15 references

Each of the 20 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. 3 further references are 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 content0

No picture of Ovalastrea caryophylloides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ovalastrea caryophylloides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ovalastrea caryophylloides 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 itOvalastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)