Cuifastraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CuifastraeidaePBDB
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 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 17 of 19 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEarly Jurassic241–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–206 Mya — about 1 occurrence206–204 Mya — about 3 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya192.9 Mya241 Mya183 Mya

19 occurrences of Cuifastraea 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

19 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

9 formations

Bortepa — 37.50°N, 74.50°EBortepa — 37.47°N, 74.73°EBortepa — 37.33°N, 75.00°EBortepa — 39.27°N, 73.45°EZlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.69°EChichkautek — 37.78°N, 74.25°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.83°WAugusta — 39.61°N, 117.49°WMartin Bridge — 45.10°N, 116.78°W"Lithiotid Horizon" — 45.92°N, 14.47°E

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The named rock units Cuifastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cuifastraea and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cuifastraea, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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 Cuifastraea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Cuifastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cuifastraea 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.

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What may have been alongside itCuifastraeidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melnikova 1983