Amphiastrea piriformis

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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 168.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 20 of 39 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 19 of 39 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 5 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 5 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168.2 Mya149.2 Mya171.5 Mya142.5 Mya

39 occurrences of Amphiastrea piriformis 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

39 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

14 formations

Tataouine — 32.57°N, 10.35°ETataouine — 32.73°N, 10.48°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EChari — 23.30°N, 69.97°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°ESa Wer — 10.34°N, 42.80°ESa Wer — 10.56°N, 43.00°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EKorond — 33.92°N, 57.33°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WWashtawa — 23.50°N, 70.50°EAlcobaça — 39.52°N, 9.13°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°EKaladongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°ESao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°W

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The named rock units Amphiastrea piriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphiastrea piriformis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Amphiastrea piriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Amphiastrea piriformis, 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

14 references

Each of the 39 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Amphiastrea piriformis 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 piriformis, 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 Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1900)