Siderastrea

Siderastrea

D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 460 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 460 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 460 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 460 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 460 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 124 of 460 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 54 of 460 occurrencesPleistocene — about 183 of 460 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 14 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 33 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 28 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 31 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 23 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 45 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 248 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

460 occurrences of Siderastrea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

460 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

96 formations

Ironshore — 19.30°N, 81.20°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WHato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WHato — 12.20°N, 69.08°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 27.32°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WImperial — 33.02°N, 116.07°WImperial — 32.80°N, 116.07°WImperial — 32.87°N, 115.98°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.31°N, 82.14°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WSeroe Domi — 12.13°N, 68.95°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WBermont — 26.67°N, 80.68°WBermont — 26.70°N, 80.37°WArcadia — 27.88°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.95°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 27.92°N, 82.45°WCastro Limestone — 40.02°N, 18.43°ETamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.40°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.70°WLa Quinta — 17.18°N, 92.63°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WCardenas — 22.02°N, 99.63°WCardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WRosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°ERosignano Limestone — 43.50°N, 10.43°EPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°W

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The named rock units Siderastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 188 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siderastrea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Siderastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,693 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 196 sites for Siderastrea, 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

163 references

Each of the 460 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. 151 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Siderastrea

Credit
D. Gordon E. Robertson
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSiderastreidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830