Actinostroma
Searched as Actinostroma dehornae densicolumnatum. The Paleobiology Database treats Actinostroma as the accepted name.
No picture of Actinostroma 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 Actinostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinostromatidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Actinostroma on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Actinostroma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actinostroma and its relatives
DevonianWhere Actinostroma and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
983 taxa- Stromatopora34 sites
- Stromatoporella26 sites
- Stachyodes24 sites
- Favosites23 sites
- Thamnopora23 sites
- Trupetostroma23 sites
- Alveolites20 sites
- Amphipora20 sites
- Crinoidea17 sites
- Hermatostroma17 sites
- Aulopora15 sites
- Clathrocoilona14 sites
- Ostracoda14 sites
- Syringopora14 sites
- Atelodictyon13 sites
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa13 sites
- Gastropoda12 sites
- Heliolites12 sites
- Stromatoporoidea12 sites
- Thamnophyllum11 sites
- Athyris9 sites
- Clathrodictyon9 sites
- Coenites9 sites
- Rugosa9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Actinostroma, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Actinostroma 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 Actinostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinostroma 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 itActinostromatidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1886