Thamnasteria rhaetica
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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 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Thamnasteria rhaetica on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Thamnasteria rhaetica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thamnasteria rhaetica and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Thamnasteria rhaetica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Astraeomorpha confusa2 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta2 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli2 sites
- Cuifastraea granulata2 sites
- Distichophyllia norica2 sites
- Margarosmilia2 sites
- Pamiroseris2 sites
- Pamiroseris meriani2 sites
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa2 sites
- Retiophyllia dichotoma2 sites
- Retiophyllia langobardica2 sites
- Stylophyllum2 sites
- Astraeomorpha minor1 site
- Astraeomorpha multisepta1 site
- Astraeomorpha reimani1 site
- Chevalieria1 site
- Coryphyllia elliptica1 site
- Crassistella1 site
- Cuifastraea1 site
- Cuifia1 site
- Curtoseris1 site
- Morycastraea1 site
- Palaeastraea1 site
- Paracuifia tortuosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Thamnasteria rhaetica, 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
2 references- Atlas Triasovykh Bespozvonochnykh Pamira2
- New Triassic Colonial Scleractinians from the Southeastern Pamirs1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Thamnasteria rhaetica 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 rhaetica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thamnasteria rhaetica 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 TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melnikova 1996