Hillastraea floriformis
No picture of Hillastraea floriformis 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 Hillastraea floriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HillastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Hillastraea floriformis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Hillastraea floriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hillastraea floriformis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Hillastraea floriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Alveolites2 sites
- Alveolites suborbicularis2 sites
- Argutastrea hullensis2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Disphyllum caespitosum2 sites
- Disphyllum virgatum2 sites
- Metriophyllum2 sites
- Temnophyllum turbinatum2 sites
- Thamnopora2 sites
- Zaphrenthis2 sites
- <Stromatolites>1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alveolites saleei1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Aristophyllum menyouense1 site
- Careophyllum brevilamellatum1 site
- Catactoechus obliquus1 site
- Catactoechus sp.1 site
- Catactotoechus1 site
- Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) spissa1 site
- Disphyllidae1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Disphyllum incomptum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hillastraea floriformis, 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- Middle and Upper Devonian rugose corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia2
- The history of Devonian-Carboniferous reef communities: extinctions, effects, recovery1
- Devonian corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia1
Each of the 4 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 Hillastraea floriformis 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 Hillastraea floriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hillastraea floriformis 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 itHillastraea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hill 1954)