Complexastrea

Complexastrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecosmiliidaePBDB
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 78 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 87 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 29 of 87 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 32 of 87 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 87 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 87 occurrencesLate Cretaceous176–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 6 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 19 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 11 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 8 occurrences152–149 Mya — about 3 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 5 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 4 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 6 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168.6 Mya89.8 Mya176 Mya84 Mya

87 occurrences of Complexastrea 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

87 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

22 formations

Benassal — 40.05°N, 0.15°EBenassal — 40.63°N, 0.73°WBenassal — 40.55°N, 0.70°WCalcaire à polypier de Frotey — 47.73°N, 6.00°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ELangshan — 33.45°N, 79.70°ELangshan — 31.38°N, 89.00°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EHauptraugenstein — 47.48°N, 7.95°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EBadamu — 34.17°N, 56.67°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.87°N, 57.30°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EDevils Racecourse — 18.22°N, 77.00°WSwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°ENiwki — 50.18°N, 20.95°EOehrli — 47.42°N, 10.04°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°EBetlis — 47.24°N, 9.37°E

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The named rock units Complexastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Complexastrea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

767 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Complexastrea, 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 87 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 content2

Picture of Complexastrea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itThecosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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