Clausastrea

Clausastrea

Orbigny (d') · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontlivaltiidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 110 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 45 of 110 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 45 of 110 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 110 occurrencesLate Cretaceous177–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 5 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 16 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 10 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 5 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 10 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–123 Mya — about 10 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 21 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences170.9 Mya83.6 Mya177 Mya70 Mya

110 occurrences of Clausastrea 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

110 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

18 formations

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.80°EOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EGrodziszcze Conglomerates — 49.83°N, 19.93°EWysoka Turnia Limestone — 49.25°N, 19.93°EBalgarene — 43.13°N, 25.60°EBalgarene — 43.07°N, 25.73°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°EIfenthal — 47.40°N, 7.42°EErnstbrunn — 48.87°N, 16.67°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.08°N, 98.62°EFiguieres — 43.33°N, 5.20°ECamarena — 37.38°N, 4.78°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°ESmochan — 43.20°N, 24.85°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Clausastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clausastrea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Clausastrea, 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

45 references

Each of the 110 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. 33 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Clausastrea

Source
GBIF
Credit
Orbigny (d')
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. D'Orbigny 1849