Heliastrea grandis
No picture of Heliastrea grandis 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 Heliastrea grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliastreaPBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Heliastrea grandis 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Heliastrea grandis 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.
Heliastrea grandis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heliastrea grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Acropora2 sites
- Favia melitae2 sites
- Favites neugeboreni2 sites
- Goniastrea2 sites
- Goniopora2 sites
- Hydnophora provincialis2 sites
- Leptomussa falloti2 sites
- Lithophyllia michelotti2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Siderastrea2 sites
- Solenastrea tizeroutinensis2 sites
- Acanthastrea dausi1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Amphistegina1 site
- Borelis1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Carditidae1 site
- Chamberlainium1 site
- Conus1 site
- Diploastrea incerta1 site
- Diploastrea roasendai1 site
- Echinus1 site
- Entobia1 site
- Favia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heliastrea grandis, 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- Microfacies evidence for the evolution of Miocene coral-reef environments in Cyprus1
- Tectonic controlls on Miocene reefs and related carbonate facies in Cyprus1
- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]1
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 Heliastrea grandis 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 Heliastrea grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliastrea grandis 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 itHeliastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961