Isastrea limitata

No picture of Isastrea limitata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Isastrea limitata itself, so it was not used. 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 limitata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175.2 Mya161 Mya

12 occurrences of Isastrea limitata 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

12 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

5 formations

Calcaire de Caen — 48.82°N, 0.03°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WWhite Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.88°WTichilesti — 44.42°N, 28.48°EForest Marble — 51.00°N, 1.00°WHauptraugenstein — 47.48°N, 7.95°E

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The named rock units Isastrea limitata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isastrea limitata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Isastrea limitata, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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 limitata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Isastrea limitata itself, so it was not used.

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 limitata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Isastrea limitata 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. (Michelin 1846)