Heliastrea

Heliastrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeliastraeidaePBDB
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 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 155 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 155 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 155 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 155 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 155 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 155 occurrencesMiocene — about 123 of 155 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 155 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 155 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 30 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 49 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 34 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence125.77 Mya129 ka146 Mya0 Mya

155 occurrences of Heliastrea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

155 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

24 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WSant Elm — 39.75°N, 2.63°EMaradah — 29.67°N, 18.75°EJebel Kibrit — 28.50°N, 35.00°EJebel Kibrit — 28.17°N, 35.17°ELas Cahobas — 18.53°N, 72.54°WLas Cahobas — 18.53°N, 72.29°WCastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°EUm ad Dahiy — 29.75°N, 18.13°EKöprücay — 37.17°N, 31.10°EKöprücay — 37.45°N, 31.25°EPakhna — 34.97°N, 34.07°ERosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°ERosignano Limestone — 43.50°N, 10.43°EGirbova de Sus — 46.43°N, 23.63°EGirbova de Sus — 46.37°N, 23.67°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°ETavo — 7.95°N, 49.83°EGargorre — 10.48°N, 50.68°EGargorre — 10.37°N, 50.95°ECala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°EPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EAbu Hashish — 29.17°N, 18.83°EGreir Bu Hascisc — 29.67°N, 17.33°EOymapimar Limestone — 37.30°N, 31.12°ETerravecchia — 37.67°N, 13.98°EGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EAsmari — 31.72°N, 49.58°EGuinea Corn Fm — 18.14°N, 77.34°W

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The named rock units Heliastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 97 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliastrea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Heliastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Heliastrea, 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

44 references

Each of the 155 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. 32 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 content1

Picture of Heliastrea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heliastrea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857