Leptastrea

Leptastrea is a genus of massive reef building stony corals known primarily from the Indo-Pacific. Although previously assigned to Faviidae, Budd et al. (2012) assigned it to Scleractinia incertae sedis based on phylogenetic results demonstrating the polyphyly of Faviidae. Assigned to family Leptastreidae by Rowlett (2020).

Leptastrea

Larry Basch/NPS · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptastreidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
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 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 134 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 134 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 134 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 134 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 134 occurrencesPleistocene — about 85 of 134 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 18 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 90 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

134 occurrences of Leptastrea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

134 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

21 formations

Boat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WBoat Cove — 29.23°S, 177.88°WSalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WRiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°ETorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°ECrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EKöprücay — 37.45°N, 31.25°EMiyako-jima — 24.80°N, 125.28°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WSobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°ERudeis — 29.12°N, 33.22°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°E

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The named rock units Leptastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptastrea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Leptastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

567 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Leptastrea, 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

61 references

Each of the 134 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. 49 further references are not listed. 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 Leptastrea

Credit
Larry Basch/NPS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Leptastrea 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLeptastreidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848