Cassianastraea reussi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CassianastraeaPBDB
- 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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Cassianastraea reussi 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
10 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
- Cassian Formation4
- Augusta Formation · Star Peak Group2
- Augusta Mountain Formation1
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The named rock units Cassianastraea reussi 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 reussi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Cassianastraea reussi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
154 taxa- Margarophyllia capitata6 sites
- Remismilia sublaevis6 sites
- Guembelastraea guembeli5 sites
- Myriophyllum5 sites
- Margarosmilia confluens4 sites
- Margarosmilia richthofeni4 sites
- Margarosmilia zieteni4 sites
- Omphalophyllia4 sites
- Omphalophyllia boletiformis4 sites
- Pinacophyllum4 sites
- Protoheterastrea leonhardi4 sites
- Volzeia subdichotoma4 sites
- Alpinophyllia plana3 sites
- Craspedophyllia cristata3 sites
- Montlivaltia radiciformis3 sites
- Myriophyllum badioticum3 sites
- Retiophyllia3 sites
- Stromatoporoidea3 sites
- Toechastraea3 sites
- Aka2 sites
- Atrochaetetes2 sites
- Ceriostella variabilis2 sites
- Chaetetidae2 sites
- Craspedophyllia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cassianastraea reussi, 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
6 references- Die Korallen der Schichten von St Cassian in Süd-Tirol3
- Middle Triassic cnidarians from the New Pass Range, central Nevada2
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia2
- Sulla presenza di alcune demospongie e coralli nel Trias medio-superiore dell'Irpina (Campania) [The presence of demosponges and corals in the Middle-Upper Triassic of Irpinia (Campania)]1
- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America1
- Biostratinomy and palaeoecology of the Cassian Formation (Triassic) of the Southern Alps1
Each of the 10 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 Cassianastraea reussi 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 reussi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cassianastraea reussi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCassianastraea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Laube 1865)