Trigerastraea

Trigerastraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LatomeandridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 27 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 27 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences187–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 6 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–159 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 3 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences184.2 Mya121.4 Mya194 Mya118 Mya

27 occurrences of Trigerastraea on record, most of them in the Middle 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

27 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

13 formations

Calcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EKorond — 33.92°N, 57.33°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°EEsfandiar Limestone (Base) — 33.67°N, 57.17°EWysoka Turnia Limestone — 49.25°N, 19.93°EDoi Yot — 16.75°N, 98.62°EDomvrena Marble — 38.35°N, 22.98°EHanifa — 25.25°N, 46.00°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Trigerastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trigerastraea and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Trigerastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

472 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Trigerastraea, 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

19 references

Each of the 27 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 Trigerastraea

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trigerastraea 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 itLatomeandridae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1951