Actinastrea gibbosa

Searched as Astrocoenia gibbosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Actinastrea gibbosa as the accepted name.

No picture of Actinastrea gibbosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Actinastrea gibbosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinastreaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Actinastreidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Actinastreidae

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 12 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 4 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189–183 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences199.5 Mya56 Mya204 Mya45 Mya

12 occurrences of Actinastrea gibbosa on record, most of them in the Early 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

12 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

4 formations

Trstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°ESutton — 51.45°N, 3.50°WSutton stone — 51.43°N, 3.55°WCalcares marins à alvéolines — 43.33°N, 2.60°E

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The named rock units Actinastrea gibbosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinastrea gibbosa and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Actinastrea gibbosa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Actinastrea gibbosa, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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

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No picture of Actinastrea gibbosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Actinastrea gibbosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinastrea gibbosa 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 itActinastrea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1867)