Aulastraea schaeferi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulastraeaPBDB
- 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 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 119.57 Mya.
4 occurrences of Aulastraea schaeferi on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Aulastraea schaeferi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aulastraea schaeferi and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Aulastraea schaeferi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Amphiaulastrea conferta3 sites
- Acanthogyra multiformis2 sites
- Amphiastrea basaltiformis2 sites
- Aplosmilia semisulcata2 sites
- Aulastraea macer2 sites
- Bilaterocoenia amica2 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum2 sites
- Cryptocoenia castellum2 sites
- Dermosmilia laxata2 sites
- Dimorpharaea koechlini2 sites
- Dimorphastrea dubia2 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis2 sites
- Heliocoenia decora2 sites
- Heliocoenia strambergensis2 sites
- Heliocoenia triradiata2 sites
- Montlivaltia vesiculosa2 sites
- Opisthophyllum zitteli2 sites
- Ovalastrea plicata2 sites
- Pleurostylina corallina2 sites
- Stylosmilia michelini2 sites
- Thecosmilia dichotoma2 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma2 sites
- Acanthogyra columnaris1 site
- Acanthogyra parvisepta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aulastraea schaeferi, 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
4 references- Korallen und Rudisten aus dem Apt im tertiären Flysch des Parnass-Gebirges bei Delphi-Arachowa (Mittelgriechenland)1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]1
- The Tithonian reef of Stramberk Limestone (Czechoslovakia, West Carpathians)1
- Beiträge zur Korallenfauna des Stramberger Tithon1
Each of the 4 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 Aulastraea schaeferi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Aulastraea schaeferi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aulastraea schaeferi 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 itAulastraea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilvie 1897