Isastrea hemisphaerica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsastreaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya159 Mya184.8 Mya154.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Isastrea hemisphaerica on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

5 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

3 formations

Hanifa — 25.25°N, 46.00°EHanifa — 24.92°N, 46.25°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°E

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The named rock units Isastrea hemisphaerica 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.

Isastrea hemisphaerica and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Isastrea hemisphaerica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Isastrea hemisphaerica, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 content0

No picture of Isastrea hemisphaerica 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 Isastrea hemisphaerica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Isastrea hemisphaerica 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 itIsastrea through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gregory 1900