Astrocoenia nidiformis

Astrocoenia nidiformis

Twenhofel, William H. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
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 most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.7 Mya100 Mya

3 occurrences of Astrocoenia nidiformis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

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

Belvidere — 37.45°N, 99.07°WComanche Peak Limestone — 31.08°N, 97.50°WDevils River Limestone — 29.70°N, 101.37°W

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The named rock units Astrocoenia nidiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Astrocoenia nidiformis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Astrocoenia nidiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Astrocoenia nidiformis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Astrocoenia nidiformis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Twenhofel, William H.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Astrocoenia nidiformis 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 itAstrocoenia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cragin 1895