Ovalastrea crassa
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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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Ovalastrea crassa 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
5 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ovalastrea crassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ovalastrea crassa and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Ovalastrea crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis2 sites
- Latiastraea variabilis2 sites
- Myriophyllia angustata2 sites
- Ovalastrea michelini2 sites
- Ovalastrea tenuistriata2 sites
- Solenocoenia semiradiata2 sites
- Actinastrea1 site
- Actinastrea furcata1 site
- Adelocoenia limbata1 site
- Adelocoenia parvistella1 site
- Adelocoenia pistillum1 site
- Adelocoenia radisensis1 site
- Allocoenia trochiformis1 site
- Amphiastrea basaltiformis1 site
- Amphiastrea piriformis1 site
- Aplosmilia1 site
- Aplosmilia aspera1 site
- Aplosmilia distans1 site
- Aplosmilia kobyi1 site
- Aplosmilia nuda1 site
- Aplosmilia semisulcata1 site
- Aplosmilia spathula1 site
- Axosmilia corallina1 site
- Blastosmilia fromenteli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ovalastrea crassa, 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
3 references- Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris3
- Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 21
- Trois especes nouvelles de Madreporaires de l'Oxfordien superieur de Grece continentale (Province de Beotie) [Three new Upper Oxfordian coral species from continental Greece (Boeotia)]1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ovalastrea crassa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 crassa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ovalastrea crassa 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. (Étallon 1859)