Palastraea

No picture of Palastraea 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 Palastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeosmiliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferous347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–333 Mya — about 1 occurrence333–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–329 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya323.4 Mya347.3 Mya314.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Palastraea on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

14 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

8 formations

Idmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.44°N, 5.23°WClogrenan — 52.83°N, 6.92°WRoc de Murviel — 43.55°N, 3.33°EAkerchi — 33.53°N, 5.39°WSierra del Castillo — 38.18°N, 5.02°WDjebel Ouarkziz — 28.36°N, 9.48°WBou-Rifi — 32.92°N, 5.65°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°W

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The named rock units Palastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palastraea and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Palastraea, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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

Media content0

No picture of Palastraea 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 Palastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palastraea 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 itPalaeosmiliidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1851