Kuhnastraea incrassata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KuhnastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Reimaniphylliidae
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
8 occurrences of Kuhnastraea incrassata on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
8 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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 Kuhnastraea incrassata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kuhnastraea incrassata and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Kuhnastraea incrassata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Astraeomorpha crassisepta5 sites
- Distichophyllia norica5 sites
- Kuhnastraea decussata5 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa4 sites
- Crassistella juvavica4 sites
- Gablonzeria profunda4 sites
- Palaeastraea grandissima4 sites
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa4 sites
- Retiophyllia caespitosa4 sites
- Stylophyllopsis polyactis4 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli3 sites
- Coccophyllum sturi3 sites
- Cycliphyllia cyclica3 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa3 sites
- Gigantostylis epigonus3 sites
- Margarosmilia charlyana3 sites
- Oedalmia norica3 sites
- Phacelostylophyllum zitteli3 sites
- Pinacophyllum parallelum3 sites
- Procyclolites triadicus3 sites
- Retiophyllia clathrata3 sites
- Retiophyllia frechi3 sites
- Retiophyllia norica3 sites
- Retiophyllia oppeli3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Kuhnastraea incrassata, 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- Triassic Corals of the Zlambach Beds, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria4
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America2
- Systematic analysis of upper triassic silicified scleractinian corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander Terrane, Alaska and British Columbia1
- Triassic Corals and Spongiomorphs from Hells Canyon, Wallowa Terrane, Oregon1
Each of the 8 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 content1
Picture of Kuhnastraea incrassata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kuhnastraea incrassata 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 itKuhnastraea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frech 1890)