Siderastrea siderea

Siderastrea siderea, commonly known as massive starlet coral or round starlet coral, is a stony coral in the family Siderastreidae. It is found in shallow parts of the western Atlantic Ocean as solid boulder-shaped or domed structures.

Siderastrea siderea

D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 179 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 179 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 26 of 179 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 118 of 179 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 22 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 21 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 91 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

179 occurrences of Siderastrea siderea 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

179 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

35 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIronshore — 19.28°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 — 12.20°N, 69.08°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WSeroe Domi — 12.13°N, 68.95°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.31°N, 82.14°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.40°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.70°WLa Quinta — 17.18°N, 92.63°WKey Largo Limestone — 25.13°N, 80.38°WKey Largo Limestone — 24.93°N, 80.58°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WRiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WLa Cruz — 20.00°N, 75.85°WGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EBlanquilla — 11.85°N, 64.62°W

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The named rock units Siderastrea siderea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siderastrea siderea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Siderastrea siderea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

382 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Siderastrea siderea, 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

45 references

Each of the 179 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. 33 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 content1

Picture of Siderastrea siderea

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

No 3D scan of Siderastrea siderea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ellis and Solander 1786)