Floriastrea sexradiata
No picture of Floriastrea sexradiata 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 Floriastrea sexradiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FloriastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Actinastreidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Actinastreidae
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Floriastrea sexradiata 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
6 occurrences- Early 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
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The named rock units Floriastrea sexradiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Floriastrea sexradiata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Floriastrea sexradiata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Actinaraea tenuis1 site
- Amphiastrea gracilis1 site
- Chaetetopsis1 site
- Clausastrea alloiteaui1 site
- Complexastrea coronata1 site
- Cyathophora steinmanni1 site
- Dermosmilia miyakoensis1 site
- Diplocoenia1 site
- Eugyra cotteaui1 site
- Eugyra interrupta1 site
- Eugyra pontica hydnophoroides1 site
- Heliocoenia picteti1 site
- Heliocoenia sparsa1 site
- Latiastraea magna1 site
- Microsolena exigua1 site
- Microsolena major1 site
- Polyphylloseris convexa1 site
- Pseudomyriophyllia carpathica1 site
- Stylina inwaldensis1 site
- Stylina sablensis1 site
- Stylosmilia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Floriastrea sexradiata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Geksakorally urgonskoy fatsii Dzirulskogo Massiva i ego cevernogo obramlyeniya [Hexacorals from the Urgonian facies of the Dzirul Massif and its northern frame]5
- Oldest scleractinian fauna from Jamaica (Hauterivian, Benbow Inlier)1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Floriastrea sexradiata 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 Floriastrea sexradiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Floriastrea sexradiata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itFloriastrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sikharulidze 1985)