Thamnasteria tenuissima
No picture of Thamnasteria tenuissima was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 tenuissima, 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Thamnasteria tenuissima on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 Cretaceous100%
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
- Bila hora Formation · Polypiers redepose Group2
- Dölzschen Formation1
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The named rock units Thamnasteria tenuissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thamnasteria tenuissima and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Thamnasteria tenuissima and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Confusaforma weyeri2 sites
- Mesomorpha minima2 sites
- Microphyllia2 sites
- Negoporites spissus2 sites
- Siderastrea splendida2 sites
- Actinastrea cribellum1 site
- Actinastrea pseudominima1 site
- Actinastrea ramosa1 site
- Adelocoenia carantonensis1 site
- Barysmilia brevicaulis1 site
- Brachymeandra silex1 site
- Brachyphyllia circulus1 site
- Canleria clemens1 site
- Cryptocoenia regularis1 site
- Dimorphastraeopsis bohemica1 site
- Dimorphastrea1 site
- Dimorphocoenia1 site
- Fungiastraea1 site
- Fungiastraea conferta1 site
- Fungiastraea cotteaui1 site
- Fungiastraea muelleri1 site
- Glenarea poctai1 site
- Heliopora radiata1 site
- Heterocoenia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Thamnasteria tenuissima, 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- Coraux crétacés de Bohême (Cénomanien supérieur; Turonien inférieur - Coniacien inférieur), République tchèque2
- Die Korallen der sächsischen Oberkreide - eine Zwischenbilanz und Bemerkungen zu Korallenfaunen des Cenomans [Upper Cretaceous corals from Saxony (Germany) - interim results and notes on Cenomanian coral faunas]1
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 tenuissima was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 tenuissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thamnasteria tenuissima 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 CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851