Eocolumastrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColumastreidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 22 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168.6 Mya83.6 Mya173 Mya64 Mya

22 occurrences of Eocolumastrea on record, most of them in the Early 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

22 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

10 formations

Espinazo del Diablo — 29.44°N, 109.46°WBarranquín — 8.96°N, 63.55°WLajas — 39.17°S, 69.95°WSmeltertown — 31.45°N, 106.55°WBarranquin — 10.30°N, 64.72°WGoodland Limestone — 32.72°N, 97.37°WEdwards Limestone — 30.07°N, 99.60°WQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°ESimsima — 24.48°N, 55.92°EValea Minusului — 45.02°N, 21.88°E

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The named rock units Eocolumastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eocolumastrea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Eocolumastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Eocolumastrea, 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

14 references

Each of the 22 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. 2 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 content0

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eocolumastrea, 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 itColumastreidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loeser and Zell 2015