Synastrea

Synastrea

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 72 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 72 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 17 of 72 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 39 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences178–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 7 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 3 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 11 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 5 occurrences90–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences184.2 Mya72.2 Mya195 Mya63 Mya

72 occurrences of Synastrea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

72 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

26 formations

Korycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.28°N, 14.33°EKorycany — 49.88°N, 15.30°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°ECabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.10°N, 7.78°WSlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EPraznov — 49.10°N, 18.50°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°ETheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°ETitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WHanifa — 25.08°N, 45.43°EMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WPolypiers — 50.62°N, 13.80°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°ESenyus — 42.25°N, 1.35°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WCalcari Grigi — 45.87°N, 11.38°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EOcozocoautla — 16.80°N, 93.37°WHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°ESidi Kralif — 35.43°N, 9.78°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°EZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°W

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The named rock units Synastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Synastrea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Synastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

911 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Synastrea, 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

42 references

Each of the 72 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. 30 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 Synastrea

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

No 3D scan of Synastrea was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itSynastraeidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848