Latiastraea variabilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LatiastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
13 occurrences of Latiastraea variabilis on record, most of them in the Late 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
13 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Latiastraea variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Latiastraea variabilis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Latiastraea variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Adelocoenia limbata4 sites
- Comoseris minima4 sites
- Meandrophyllia amedei4 sites
- Solenocoenia semiradiata4 sites
- Thamnasteria concinna4 sites
- Cladophyllia rollieri3 sites
- Cryptocoenia castellum3 sites
- Fungiastraea pseudoarachnoides3 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis3 sites
- Isastrea helianthoides3 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis3 sites
- Stylina3 sites
- Stylina subornata3 sites
- Actinaraea granulata2 sites
- Adelocoenia splendens2 sites
- Calamophylliopsis stockesi2 sites
- Complexastrea seriata2 sites
- Complexastrea thevenini2 sites
- Dermosmilia laxata2 sites
- Latiastrea2 sites
- Microphyllia2 sites
- Myriophyllia angustata2 sites
- Myriophyllia rastellina2 sites
- Ovalastrea crassa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Latiastraea variabilis, 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
8 references- Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris4
- Pozdneyurskiye korally rifogennykh otlozheniy Kavkaza i Kryma [Upper Jurassic corals from the reef deposits of the Caucasus and Crimea]2
- Les Madreporaires du Jurassic superieur de la bordure des Monts de Sainte-Croix, Pologne [Upper Jurassic Scleractinia from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland]2
- Die Korallenfauna des Korallenooliths (Oxfordium, Oberjura, NW-Deutschland): Zusammensetzung, Stratigraphie und regionale Verbreitung1
- Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 21
- Upper Kimmeridgian Scleractinia of Pomerania (Poland)1
- Corals, molluscs, and paleogeography of Late Jurassic strata of the Cerro Pozo Serna, Mexico1
- Trois especes nouvelles de Madreporaires de l'Oxfordien superieur de Grece continentale (Province de Beotie) [Three new Upper Oxfordian coral species from continental Greece (Boeotia)]1
Each of the 13 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.
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No picture of Latiastraea variabilis 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 Latiastraea variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Latiastraea variabilis 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 itLatiastrea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Étallon 1859)