Thamnasteria seriata
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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 least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 145.06 Mya.
7 occurrences of Thamnasteria seriata 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
7 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Thamnasteria seriata 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.
Thamnasteria seriata and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Thamnasteria seriata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Thamnasteria concinna6 sites
- Actinaraea5 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis5 sites
- Montlivaltia obconica5 sites
- Isastrea crassa4 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma4 sites
- Isastrea helianthoides3 sites
- Adelocoenia limbata2 sites
- Cladophyllia dichotoma2 sites
- Enallhelia elegans2 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis2 sites
- Latiphyllia confluens2 sites
- Latomeandra plicata2 sites
- Microphyllia brevivallis2 sites
- Stylina delabechii2 sites
- Thecosmilia costata2 sites
- Acrosmilia1 site
- Acrosmilia depressa1 site
- Acrosmilia robusta1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Adelocoenia pistillum1 site
- Aplosmilia suevica1 site
- Astrospongia costata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Thamnasteria seriata, 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
3 references- Riffkorallen im norddeutschen Oberjura - Taxonomie, Ökologie, Verteilung5
- Ein Korallenriff aus dem Oberen Malm südlich von Dollnstein, Mittelfranken1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfauna von Württemberg1
Each of the 7 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
Media content0
No picture of Thamnasteria seriata 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 seriata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thamnasteria seriata 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 itThamnasteria through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Becker 1875)