Amphiastrea aethiopica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiastreaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB, for Amphiastrea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Amphiastrea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Amphiastrea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya113.2 Mya137.6 Mya109.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Amphiastrea aethiopica 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

6 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

3 formations

Mural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WCerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WCumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°W

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The named rock units Amphiastrea aethiopica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphiastrea aethiopica and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Amphiastrea aethiopica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Amphiastrea aethiopica, 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

Each of the 6 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 Amphiastrea aethiopica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphiastrea aethiopica, 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 itAmphiastrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dietrich 1926