Tarbellastraea ellisiana

Tarbellastraea ellisiana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TarbellastraeaPBDB
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 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 25 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–8.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.7–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.04 Mya15.98 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

26 occurrences of Tarbellastraea ellisiana 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

26 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

6 formations

Rudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°ERudeis — 26.08°N, 34.22°ERudeis — 25.95°N, 34.30°ERudeis — 25.50°N, 34.65°EMaradah — 29.67°N, 18.75°EFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EAsmari — 31.72°N, 49.58°ELajta Limestone — 47.89°N, 18.78°E

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The named rock units Tarbellastraea ellisiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tarbellastraea ellisiana and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tarbellastraea ellisiana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Tarbellastraea ellisiana, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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

Media content1

Picture of Tarbellastraea ellisiana

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

No 3D scan of Tarbellastraea ellisiana 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 itTarbellastraea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1826)