Beneckastraea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PamiroseriidaePBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
7 occurrences of Beneckastraea on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
7 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Beneckastraea 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.
Beneckastraea and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Beneckastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Retiophyllia3 sites
- Cyathocoenia2 sites
- Distichophyllia norica2 sites
- Guembelastraea guembeli2 sites
- Koilocoenia decipiens2 sites
- Margarosmilia richthofeni2 sites
- Solenopora2 sites
- Toechastraea2 sites
- Agathammina1 site
- Alakiria spheroidea1 site
- Alpinophyllia1 site
- Alpinophyllia plana1 site
- Ampakabastraea1 site
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis1 site
- Andrazella labyrinthica1 site
- Anguispongia alpina1 site
- Antalythalamia riedeli1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Atrochaetetes1 site
- Baccanella floriformis1 site
- Bacinella irregularis1 site
- Barbafera1 site
- Bauneia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Beneckastraea, 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- Supplemental notes on Mesozoic Scleractinia from Mts. Hengduan, Southwest China3
- Die Korallen der Schichten von St Cassian in Süd-Tirol2
- Personal data1
- Pozdnetriasovyye skleraktinii khrebta Kenkeren (Koryakskoye nagorye) [Upper Triassic scleractinians from the Kenkeren Ridge (Koryak Range)]1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Beneckastraea 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 Beneckastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beneckastraea 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPamiroseriidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuif 1976