Actinastrea furcata

No picture of Actinastrea furcata 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 Actinastrea furcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinastreaPBDB
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 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 18 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154.8 Mya152.21 Mya162 Mya148.7 Mya

18 occurrences of Actinastrea furcata 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

18 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

5 formations

Alcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WPeral — 37.15°N, 7.60°WAmaral — 38.95°N, 9.07°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°E

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The named rock units Actinastrea furcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinastrea furcata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Actinastrea furcata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

361 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Actinastrea furcata, 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

9 references

Each of the 18 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

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No picture of Actinastrea furcata 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 Actinastrea furcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinastrea furcata 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 itActinastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Étallon 1859)