Paraclausastrea pulchra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaclausastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paraclausastrea pulchra 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
4 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 Paraclausastrea pulchra 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.
Paraclausastrea pulchra and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Paraclausastrea pulchra and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Actinastrea pseudominima1 site
- Actostroma1 site
- Astraeofungia diversisepta1 site
- Clausastrea alloiteaui1 site
- Columactinastraea1 site
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi1 site
- Cyathophora haysensis1 site
- Eocomoseris raueni1 site
- Eugyra cotteaui1 site
- Eugyra turnsekae1 site
- Felixigyra deangelisi1 site
- Fungiastraea crespoi1 site
- Kobya crassolamellosa1 site
- Meandrophyllia meandroides1 site
- Montlivaltia1 site
- Morphastrea ludovicina1 site
- Ostreidae1 site
- Paraclausastrea kaufmanni1 site
- Placocoenia robusta1 site
- Stylina micropora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paraclausastrea pulchra, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Les scléractiniaires du Barrémien-Aptien inférieur de Provence (SE de la France) [The Barremian-Early Aptian Scleractinia from Provence (SE France)]2
- Lower Cretaceous corals from the Koppeh Dagh, NE-Iran1
- Scleractinian corals from Lower Cretaceous deposits north of Esfahan (central Iran)1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Paraclausastrea pulchra 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 Paraclausastrea pulchra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraclausastrea pulchra 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 itParaclausastraea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morycowa and Masse 1998