Siderastrea scotia
No picture of Siderastrea scotia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Siderastrea scotia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Siderastrea scotia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- San Juan Formation · La Esperanza Group2
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The named rock units Siderastrea scotia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Siderastrea scotia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Siderastrea scotia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Actinacis1 site
- Actinacis barretti1 site
- Amphistegina1 site
- Astreopora esperanzae1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Eofabiania1 site
- Fabiania1 site
- Galeocerdo1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Haimesiastraea1 site
- Helicostegina1 site
- Heliopora mexicanae1 site
- Hemipristis1 site
- Isurus1 site
- Lepidocyclina antillea1 site
- Nebrius1 site
- Nummulites1 site
- Odontaspis1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Otodus auriculatus1 site
- Placosmilia copoyensis1 site
- Pseudophragmina1 site
- Pseudophragmina advena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Siderastrea scotia, 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
2 references- First Paleogene selachifauna of the Middle American-Caribbean-Antillean region, La Mesa de Copoya, west-central Chiapas-geologic setting1
- Cenozoic Reef Biofacies1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Siderastrea scotia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Siderastrea scotia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Siderastrea scotia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSiderastrea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wells 1945)