Astraeofungia

Astraeofungia

Collignon, Maurice Jules Marie · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 36 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 36 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 36 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 36 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–131 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya72.2 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

36 occurrences of Astraeofungia 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

36 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

18 formations

Mural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.45°N, 109.47°WAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WCerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WOrbitolina Limestone — 33.05°N, 51.95°EPolypiers — 50.62°N, 13.80°ELokman — 40.63°N, 35.77°EGlen Rose Limestone — 30.05°N, 98.27°WStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°ESan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WOcozocoautla — 16.82°N, 93.42°WFHS — 29.92°N, 35.55°EBranderfleck — 47.63°N, 11.67°EFontaine Salée — 42.85°N, 2.30°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°WValea Minusului — 45.02°N, 21.88°E

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The named rock units Astraeofungia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astraeofungia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Astraeofungia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

522 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Astraeofungia, 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

29 references

Each of the 36 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. 17 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 Astraeofungia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collignon, Maurice Jules Marie
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Astraeofungia 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 itSiderastreidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1952