Thecactinastraea fasciculata

Thecactinastraea fasciculata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecactinastraeaPBDB
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 most 27 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Thecactinastraea fasciculata on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

1 formation

Gurumdy — 37.78°N, 73.66°EGurumdy — 37.44°N, 74.67°E

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The named rock units Thecactinastraea fasciculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecactinastraea fasciculata and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Thecactinastraea fasciculata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Thecactinastraea fasciculata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 5 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 Thecactinastraea fasciculata

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

No 3D scan of Thecactinastraea fasciculata 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 itThecactinastraea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beauvais 1986