Cassianastraea

No picture of Cassianastraea 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 Cassianastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CassianastraeidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 4 of 17 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 13 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic245–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243.43 Mya227.3 Mya245.2 Mya204.9 Mya

17 occurrences of Cassianastraea 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

17 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

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.13°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.95°EAugusta — 39.61°N, 117.49°WBaldonnel — 56.05°N, 123.01°WBaldonnel — 56.06°N, 123.03°WRecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°EChambara — 10.85°S, 76.17°WAugusta Mountain — 39.61°N, 117.49°W

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The named rock units Cassianastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cassianastraea and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Cassianastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

502 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cassianastraea, 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

12 references

Each of the 17 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 Cassianastraea 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 Cassianastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cassianastraea 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 itCassianastraeidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

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