Astreopora

Astreopora is a genus of stony corals in the Acroporidae family. Members of the genus are commonly known as star corals and there are seventeen species currently recognized.

Astreopora

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AcroporidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 264 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 264 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 264 occurrencesEocene — about 71 of 264 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 94 of 264 occurrencesMiocene — about 43 of 264 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 264 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 264 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 6 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 9 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 12 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 24 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 31 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 28 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 54 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 17 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 43 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

264 occurrences of Astreopora on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

264 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

62 formations

Salcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ECastro Limestone — 40.00°N, 18.42°ECastro Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.83°N, 14.44°ECulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WCastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.52°N, 11.40°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.82°EGornji Grad — 46.33°N, 14.72°EGornji Grad — 46.38°N, 14.75°EAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.73°WAntigua — 17.14°N, 61.82°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.70°WMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EMolare — 44.55°N, 8.44°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ESan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EGuayanilla — 18.02°N, 66.78°WGuayanilla — 17.97°N, 66.92°WSubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°EChattahoochee — 30.85°N, 84.62°WDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.22°N, 55.83°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°E

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The named rock units Astreopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 123 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astreopora and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Astreopora and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

1,321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Astreopora, 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

115 references

Each of the 264 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. 103 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 content2

Picture of Astreopora

Credit
Diego Delso
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
YUYUMA
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAcroporidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830