Astraeomorpha crassisepta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstraeomorphaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
69 occurrences of Astraeomorpha crassisepta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
69 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
20 formations
- Calcare di Zu Formation15
- Bortepa Formation5
- Zlambach Formation5
- Nayband Formation3
- Dachstein Formation2
- Martin Bridge Limestone Formation · Seven Devils Group2
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The named rock units Astraeomorpha crassisepta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astraeomorpha crassisepta and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Astraeomorpha crassisepta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
669 taxa- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa31 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli27 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa25 sites
- Distichophyllia norica23 sites
- Retiophyllia clathrata19 sites
- Retiophyllia15 sites
- Colospongia13 sites
- Pamiroseris meriani13 sites
- Solenopora13 sites
- Crassistella juvavica12 sites
- Palaeastraea grandissima12 sites
- Gablonzeria profunda11 sites
- Galeanella11 sites
- Gastropoda11 sites
- Procyclolites triadicus11 sites
- Retiophyllia langobardica11 sites
- Retiophyllia norica11 sites
- Retiophyllia sellae11 sites
- Stromatomorpha11 sites
- Ophthalmidium10 sites
- Peronidella10 sites
- Stylophyllopsis lindstroemi10 sites
- Alpinophragmium9 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Astraeomorpha crassisepta, 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
34 references- I Coralli del Calcare di Zu (Triassico Superiore) della Lombardia (Italia)10
- Systematic analysis of upper triassic silicified scleractinian corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander Terrane, Alaska and British Columbia5
- Triassic Corals of the Zlambach Beds, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria5
- Facies zonation of the Triassic basin in the SE Pamirs4
- Rhaetian corals of the Tatra Mts.4
- Atlas Triasovykh Bespozvonochnykh Pamira3
- Microfacies and cyclic sedimentation of the Upper Triassic (Rhaetian) Calcare di Zu (Southern Alps)3
- Triassic Corals and Spongiomorphs from Hells Canyon, Wallowa Terrane, Oregon3
- Classification and correlation of Triassic limestones in Sikhote-Alin on the basis of corals2
- Triassische Korallen der südlichen Zentral-Anden2
- Rhaetian strata, Wombat Plateau: analysis of fossil communities as a key to paleoenvironmental change2
- I Coralli Calcare di Zu (Triassico Superiore) della Lombardia (Italia). Nuove Segnalazioni2
Each of the 69 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. 22 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
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No 3D scan of Astraeomorpha crassisepta 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 itAstraeomorpha through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854