Dipsastraea

Dipsastraea is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Members of this genus are native to the Indo-Pacific region. They are zooxanthellate corals.

Dipsastraea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
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 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 288 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 288 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 288 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 288 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 288 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 39 of 288 occurrencesPleistocene — about 201 of 288 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 37 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 213 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

288 occurrences of Dipsastraea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

288 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

28 formations

Chaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.05°N, 123.75°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 0.97°N, 97.78°ENias — 1.08°N, 97.73°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°ESamadai — 25.15°N, 34.85°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WNuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°EMolare — 44.55°N, 8.43°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°EDehirdan — 26.47°N, 57.91°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.45°N, 124.22°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EMiyako-jima — 24.80°N, 125.28°EWan — 28.32°N, 129.93°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°E

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The named rock units Dipsastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 194 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dipsastraea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dipsastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

720 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Dipsastraea, 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

76 references

Each of the 288 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. 64 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 Dipsastraea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. de Blainville 1830