Astrogyra

Astrogyra

Gourdan de Fromentel, Louis Édouard · 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
PlacocoeniidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya121 Mya65 Mya

15 occurrences of Astrogyra on record, most of them in the Late 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

15 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

Simsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°ESimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°E

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The named rock units Astrogyra 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.

Astrogyra and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Astrogyra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Astrogyra, 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

9 references

Each of the 15 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 Astrogyra

Source
GBIF
Credit
Gourdan de Fromentel, Louis Édouard
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Astrogyra 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 itPlacocoeniidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Felix 1900