Tricassastraea
No picture of Tricassastraea was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Tricassastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinastreidaePBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Actinastreidae
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Tricassastraea on record, most of them in the Early 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
10 occurrences- Early 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
3 formations
- Espinazo del Diablo Formation · Lampazos Group4
- Benassal Formation1
- Villarroya de los Pinares Formation1
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The named rock units Tricassastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tricassastraea and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tricassastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Columactinastraea2 sites
- Diplogyra arasensis2 sites
- Thalamocaeniopsis stricta2 sites
- Actinaraea robusta1 site
- Actinastrea aequibernensis1 site
- Agathelia minor1 site
- Agrostyliastraea irregularis1 site
- Apoplacophyllia hackemesseri1 site
- Asteroseris1 site
- Astraeofungia1 site
- Aulastraeopora deangelisi1 site
- Aulastraeopora graeca1 site
- Aulastraeopora harrisi1 site
- Aulosmilia1 site
- Axosmilia infundibuliformis1 site
- Calamophylliopsis1 site
- Calamophylliopsis fotisalensis1 site
- Camptodocis1 site
- Clausastrea magna1 site
- Columastrea1 site
- Columnocoenia1 site
- Columnocoenia bucovinensis1 site
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi1 site
- Complexastrea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tricassastraea, 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- Middle Albian corals from the Espinazo del Diablo Formation (Lampazos Area, Sonora, Mexico)4
- An Early Albian shallow marine coral fauna from Southern France – insight into evolution and palaeobiogeography of Cretaceous corals2
- Corals on the slope (Aptian, Maestrat Basin, Spain)2
- Albian corals from the Subpelagonian Zone of Central Greece (Agrostylia, Parnassos region)1
- Geksakorally urgonskoy fatsii Dzirulskogo Massiva i ego cevernogo obramlyeniya [Hexacorals from the Urgonian facies of the Dzirul Massif and its northern frame]1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Tricassastraea was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Tricassastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itActinastreidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau and Dercourt 1966