Fungiastraea columellaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FungiastraeaPBDB
- 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 least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Fungiastraea columellaris 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fungiastraea columellaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fungiastraea columellaris and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Fungiastraea columellaris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Meandraraea3 sites
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi2 sites
- Dimorpharaea manchacaensis2 sites
- Ellipsocoenia lorioli2 sites
- Microsolena2 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis2 sites
- Microsolena major2 sites
- Periseris frondescens2 sites
- Stylina micropora2 sites
- Acanthocoenia1 site
- Acanthocoenia neocomiensis1 site
- Actinaraea robusta1 site
- Actinastrea ramosa1 site
- Adelocoenia carantonensis1 site
- Ahrdorffia ornata1 site
- Amphiaulastrea1 site
- Amphiaulastrea rarauensis1 site
- Apocladophyllia neocomiensis1 site
- Astraeofungia1 site
- Calamophylliopsis fotisalensis1 site
- Camptodocis1 site
- Clausastrea bolzei1 site
- Columnocoenia1 site
- Comoseridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fungiastraea columellaris, 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
3 references- Early Aptian scleractinian corals from the Upper Schrattenkalk of Hergiswil (Lucerne region, Helvetic Zone of central Switzerland)1
- Growth rates of Early Campanian rudists in a siliciclastic-calcareous setting (Pontid Mts., north-central Turkey)1
- Aptian/Albian coral assemblages of the Helicon Mountains (Boeotia, Greece): palaeontological, palaeoecological and palaeogeographical aspects1
Each of the 3 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 Fungiastraea columellaris 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 Fungiastraea columellaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fungiastraea columellaris 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 itFungiastraea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hackemesser 1936)