Thamnasteria moreana

No picture of Thamnasteria moreana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Thamnasteria moreana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 8.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 149.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 16 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158.4 Mya148.7 Mya

16 occurrences of Thamnasteria moreana on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

16 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

4 formations

Cabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.12°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°W

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The named rock units Thamnasteria moreana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thamnasteria moreana and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Thamnasteria moreana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Thamnasteria moreana, 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

5 references

Each of the 16 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 Thamnasteria moreana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Thamnasteria moreana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thamnasteria moreana 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 itThamnasteria through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)