Goniastrea parvistella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GoniastreaPBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
3 occurrences of Goniastrea parvistella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 formations
- Riukiu Limestone Formation1
- Nias Formation1
- Dubar Formation · Guban Group1
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The named rock units Goniastrea parvistella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Goniastrea parvistella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Goniastrea parvistella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Acropora duncani1 site
- Astreopora digitata1 site
- Cyphastrea japonica1 site
- Cyphastrea tubifera1 site
- Dictyaraea micrantha1 site
- Echinometra mathaei1 site
- Fungia1 site
- Goniastrea pectinata1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Montipora solida1 site
- Mussa1 site
- Pavona microstoma1 site
- Platygyra stricta1 site
- Pleuractis granulosa1 site
- Pocillopora eydouxi1 site
- Pocillopora jenkinsi1 site
- Porites solida1 site
- Seriatopora hystrix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Goniastrea parvistella, 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
3 references- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)1
- Geological and geographical distribution of reef-corals in Japan1
- Jungtertiäre Korallen von Nias, Java und Borneo, nebst einer Übersicht über die aus dem Känozoikum des indischen Archipels bekannten Arten1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Goniastrea parvistella 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 Goniastrea parvistella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Goniastrea parvistella 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 itGoniastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)