Haimesiastraea conferta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HaimesiastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Haimesiastraea
- 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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
22 occurrences of Haimesiastraea conferta on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Late Cretaceous5%
- Paleocene55%
- Eocene41%
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
- Salina Formation4
- Marthaville Formation · Wilcox Group3
- Lefipan Formation2
- Negritos Formation2
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group2
- Roca Formation1
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The named rock units Haimesiastraea conferta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Haimesiastraea conferta and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Haimesiastraea conferta and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Venericardia2 sites
- Acesta1 site
- Ampullina (Pseudamaura)1 site
- Cladocora1 site
- Cladocora gracilis1 site
- Cucullaea transversa1 site
- Entobia1 site
- Gastrochaenolites1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Meretrix1 site
- Micropsis desori1 site
- Oculina wagneriana1 site
- Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis1 site
- Parachaetetes asvapatii1 site
- Siderastrea adkinsi1 site
- Sideroseris durhami1 site
- Struthioptera1 site
- Trypanites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Haimesiastraea conferta, 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
10 references- Cretaceous and Eocene corals from northwestern Peru8
- Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana3
- The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species3
- Massive corals in Paleocene siliciclastic sediments of Chubut (Patagonia, Argentina)2
- First shallow water scleractinian coral reef from the Danian, northern Patagonia, Argentina1
- Maastrichtian, Danian and Thanetian beds in Dolenja Vas (NW Dinarides, Yugoslavia), microfacies foraminifers, rudists and corals1
- Cenozoic Reef Biofacies1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
- The coral fauna of the Midway Eocene of Texas1
- The Midway Group of Texas1
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. 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 content1
Picture of Haimesiastraea conferta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Haimesiastraea conferta 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHaimesiastraea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1900