Astrocoenia gerthi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstrocoeniaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
3 occurrences of Astrocoenia gerthi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Astrocoenia gerthi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astrocoenia gerthi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Astrocoenia gerthi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Lithothamnion2 sites
- Scleractinia2 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acanthastrea hillae1 site
- Acanthastrea polygonalis1 site
- Alveopora daedalea1 site
- Alveopora deningeri1 site
- Anisocoenia1 site
- Anisocoenia variabilis1 site
- Antigona (Ventricola)1 site
- Astreopora1 site
- Astreopora hemisphaerica1 site
- Astreopora hochstetteri1 site
- Caulastrea1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Coenocyathus anthophyllites1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corallina1 site
- Cyathoseris1 site
- Cyathoseris crassilamellata1 site
- Cyathoseris lophiophora1 site
- Cyathoseris parvistella1 site
- Cyphastrea1 site
- Cyphastrea serailia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Astrocoenia gerthi, 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
3 references- Carbonate deposition in accretionary prism settings: Early Miocene coral limestones and corals of the Makran Mountain Range in southern Iran1
- On the occurrence of marine Miocene in Palestine1
- Das Becken von Isfahan-Saidabad und seine altmiocäne Korallenfauna [The Isfahan-Saidabad Basin and its Miocene coral fauna]1
Each of the 3 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 Astrocoenia gerthi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Astrocoenia gerthi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astrocoenia gerthi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAstrocoenia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kühn 1933