Ovalastrea regularis
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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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Ovalastrea regularis 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
5 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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 regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ovalastrea regularis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ovalastrea regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Clausastrea alloiteaui4 sites
- Clausastrea saltensis4 sites
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi4 sites
- Microphyllia4 sites
- Stylina digitiformis4 sites
- Actinastrea pseudominima3 sites
- Cryptocoenia biedai3 sites
- Cyathophora pulchella3 sites
- Cyathophora steinmanni3 sites
- Ellipsocoenia lorioli3 sites
- Eugyra (Felixigyra)3 sites
- Eugyra lanckoronensis3 sites
- Fungiastraea3 sites
- Heliocoenia rozkowskae3 sites
- Microsolena3 sites
- Microsolena major3 sites
- Stereocaenia3 sites
- Stylina inflata3 sites
- Stylina tubulifera3 sites
- Actinastrea urgonensis2 sites
- Cryptocoenia fontserei2 sites
- Dimorphastrea tendagurensis2 sites
- Dimorphocoenia2 sites
- Diplocoeniella gerochi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ovalastrea regularis, 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
4 references- Hexacoralla des Couches de Grodziszcze (Neocomien, Carpathes) [Hexacorals from the Grodziszcze Beds (Neocomian, Carpathians)]2
- Lower Cretaceous Microsolenina (Scleractinia) from Provence (southern France)1
- Aptian/Albian coral assemblages of the Helicon Mountains (Boeotia, Greece): palaeontological, palaeoecological and palaeogeographical aspects1
- Coral-bearing sediments in the Polish Carpathians1
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 regularis 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 regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ovalastrea regularis 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)