Siderastrea vancouverensis

No picture of Siderastrea vancouverensis 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 vancouverensis, 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 least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66 Mya27.3 Mya73 Mya22 Mya

4 occurrences of Siderastrea vancouverensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

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

3 formations

Pysht — 48.15°N, 123.93°WCardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WSooke — 48.40°N, 123.89°W

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The named rock units Siderastrea vancouverensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Siderastrea vancouverensis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Siderastrea vancouverensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Siderastrea vancouverensis, 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

4 references

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 Siderastrea vancouverensis 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 vancouverensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Siderastrea vancouverensis 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 itSiderastrea through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark and Arnold 1923