Elysastraea profunda
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElysastraeaPBDB
- 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 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
13 occurrences of Elysastraea profunda 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
13 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Elysastraea profunda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elysastraea profunda and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Elysastraea profunda and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
191 taxa- Distichophyllia norica8 sites
- Thamnasteria7 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa5 sites
- Ceriostella4 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Nuculoidea4 sites
- Pectinoidea4 sites
- Retiophyllia dawsoni4 sites
- Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) gibbosa4 sites
- Spongiomorpha tenuis4 sites
- Thamnasteria smithi4 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Ceriostella martini3 sites
- Ceriostella parva3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Halobia3 sites
- Heptastylis3 sites
- Mytiloidea3 sites
- Nodosaria3 sites
- Phacelophyllia suttonensis3 sites
- Retiophyllia delicatula3 sites
- Retiophyllia fenestrata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Elysastraea profunda, 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
2 references- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America12
- Riffbiotope im Karn und Nor (Obertrias) der Tethys: Entwicklung, Einschnitte und Diversitätsmuster [Reef biotopes of the Carnian and Norian (Upper Triassic) in the Thetys: Development, incisions and diversitypatterns]1
Each of the 13 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
Media content0
No picture of Elysastraea profunda 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 Elysastraea profunda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elysastraea profunda 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 itElysastraea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854