Taleastroma

Taleastroma

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
StromatoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 35 of 35 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 35 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 3 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 3 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 3 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 4 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence377–375 Mya — about 1 occurrence375–373 Mya — about 2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya372.15 Mya414 Mya358 Mya

35 occurrences of Taleastroma on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

35 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

19 formations

Santa Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.28°WSanta Lucia — 42.97°N, 6.20°WSanta Lucia — 42.87°N, 5.42°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 5.65°W"Ramparts" — 65.47°N, 127.43°W"Ramparts" — 66.25°N, 128.63°WDewal — 33.75°N, 68.03°EPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.10°WCairn — 52.30°N, 116.65°WCairn — 51.62°N, 115.43°WCawak — 33.92°N, 68.00°EWinnipegosis — 52.81°N, 100.84°WMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°EMassenkalk — 51.12°N, 7.90°ESlave Point — 58.93°N, 122.98°WTungkangling — 25.30°N, 107.40°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.37°EVilemovice — 49.20°N, 16.70°EMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°ESouthesk — 53.18°N, 118.28°WAlexo — 52.72°N, 117.13°WPalliser — 52.48°N, 116.42°WBadragha — 34.35°N, 68.35°ESin Ghar — 34.33°N, 68.40°E

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The named rock units Taleastroma 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.

Taleastroma and its relatives

Devonian

Where Taleastroma and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

79 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Taleastroma, 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

14 references

Each of the 35 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. 2 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 Taleastroma

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Taleastroma 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itStromatoporidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Galloway 1957