Siderastrea conferta

Siderastrea conferta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SiderastreaPBDB
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 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 25 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya20.45 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

25 occurrences of Siderastrea conferta 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

25 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

12 formations

Anguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.70°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WLecheria Limestone — 16.90°N, 92.92°WRancho Berlin Sandstone — 16.85°N, 92.92°WAgua Clara — 11.00°N, 70.33°WCastillo — 11.00°N, 70.50°WSan Luis — 11.07°N, 69.88°WPepino — 18.30°N, 66.92°W

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The named rock units Siderastrea conferta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siderastrea conferta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Siderastrea conferta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Siderastrea conferta, 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

9 references

Each of the 25 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 content1

Picture of Siderastrea conferta

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itSiderastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1863)