Astrocoenia guantanamensis

Astrocoenia guantanamensis

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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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41.03 Mya27.3 Mya48.6 Mya22.5 Mya

13 occurrences of Astrocoenia guantanamensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

13 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

3 formations

Antigua — 17.13°N, 61.87°WAntigua — 17.14°N, 61.82°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.69°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WSan Juan — 17.05°N, 92.72°WSan Luis — 11.07°N, 69.88°W

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The named rock units Astrocoenia guantanamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astrocoenia guantanamensis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Astrocoenia guantanamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Astrocoenia guantanamensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Astrocoenia guantanamensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Astrocoenia guantanamensis 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1919