Aulastraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiastreidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous163–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152.21 Mya100.5 Mya163 Mya93 Mya

15 occurrences of Aulastraea on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

6 formations

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.12°ECabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WEmen — 43.15°N, 25.28°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°E

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The named rock units Aulastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulastraea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Aulastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

314 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aulastraea, 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

11 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 content0

No picture of Aulastraea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aulastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aulastraea was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itAmphiastreidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilvie 1897