Complexastrea seriata

No picture of Complexastrea seriata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Complexastrea seriata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ComplexastreaPBDB
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 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 10 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161.5 Mya89.8 Mya167 Mya84 Mya

20 occurrences of Complexastrea seriata 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

20 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

8 formations

Schrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°ELangshan — 31.38°N, 89.00°ESanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EOehrli — 47.42°N, 10.04°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°E

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The named rock units Complexastrea seriata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Complexastrea seriata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

405 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Complexastrea seriata, 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

13 references

Each of the 20 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. 1 further reference is 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 content0

No picture of Complexastrea seriata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Complexastrea seriata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itComplexastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turnsek 1972