Dimorphastrea regularis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dimorphastrea regularis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
- Streiteck Formation · Lower Gosau Group2
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The named rock units Dimorphastrea regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dimorphastrea regularis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dimorphastrea regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- <Microbes>2 sites
- Actinacis martiniana2 sites
- Actinaraea tenuis2 sites
- Agathelia asperella2 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium2 sites
- Ataxophragmiinae indet.2 sites
- Cheilostomata2 sites
- Cryptostomata2 sites
- Lithothamnion2 sites
- Microsolena kobyi2 sites
- Microsolena major2 sites
- Neocoenia lepida2 sites
- Plagioptychus2 sites
- Pleurocora arachnoides2 sites
- Polystrata alba2 sites
- Pseudopolytremacis spinoseptata2 sites
- Serpulidae2 sites
- Thamnasteria2 sites
- Thamnoseris morchella2 sites
- Vaccinites2 sites
- Astraeofungia diversisepta1 site
- Aulosmilia cuneiformis1 site
- Complexastrea seriata1 site
- Dimorphastrea glomerata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimorphastrea regularis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dimorphastrea regularis 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 Dimorphastrea regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimorphastrea regularis 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 itDimorphastrea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fromentel 1857)