Tarbellastraea

Tarbellastraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 354 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 354 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 317 of 354 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 354 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 354 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 11 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 14 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 14 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 24 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 30 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 42 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 18 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 29 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 29 occurrences9.2–8.0 Mya — about 29 occurrences8.0–6.7 Mya — about 26 occurrences6.7–5.5 Mya — about 21 occurrences5.5–4.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya7.246 Mya38.4 Mya1.9 Mya

354 occurrences of Tarbellastraea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

354 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

52 formations

Tortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°ERudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°ERudeis — 27.62°N, 33.37°ERudeis — 26.12°N, 34.18°ERudeis — 25.95°N, 34.30°ERudeis — 25.50°N, 34.65°ERudeis — 24.80°N, 35.02°ERudeis — 24.42°N, 35.20°ERudeis — 29.12°N, 33.22°ETermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ECastro Limestone — 40.02°N, 18.43°EMaradah — 29.67°N, 18.75°ESalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°EFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WJebel Kibrit — 28.50°N, 35.00°EJebel Kibrit — 28.17°N, 35.17°ERoka — 35.58°N, 23.60°ERoka — 35.52°N, 23.60°EQom — 34.64°N, 50.72°EQom — 32.95°N, 52.14°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ETerravecchia — 37.67°N, 13.98°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°EAl Khums — 29.83°N, 19.17°ELethia — 47.83°N, 16.48°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.95°N, 14.35°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.37°EGirbova de Sus — 46.43°N, 23.63°EGirbova de Sus — 46.47°N, 23.63°EGirbova de Sus — 46.37°N, 23.67°EAsmari — 31.26°N, 50.98°EAsmari — 31.72°N, 49.58°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.83°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°EPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°ELeitha — 47.83°N, 16.48°EKöprücay — 37.17°N, 31.10°EKöprücay — 37.45°N, 31.25°EKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°EKasaba — 36.43°N, 29.80°E

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The named rock units Tarbellastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 185 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tarbellastraea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tarbellastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 178 sites for Tarbellastraea, 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

100 references

Each of the 354 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. 88 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 Tarbellastraea

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1950