Palaeoplesiastraea

Palaeoplesiastraea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15.98 Mya7.246 Mya23.5 Mya4.8 Mya

28 occurrences of Palaeoplesiastraea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

28 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

7 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EAl Khums — 29.83°N, 19.17°EMaradah — 29.67°N, 18.75°EMonti Climiti — 37.18°N, 15.12°ETerravecchia — 37.67°N, 13.98°EGharra — 30.17°N, 32.30°E

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The named rock units Palaeoplesiastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeoplesiastraea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Palaeoplesiastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

447 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Palaeoplesiastraea, 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 28 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 Palaeoplesiastraea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeoplesiastraea 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 itColumastreidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961