Leptastrea transversa

Leptastrea transversa

Larry Basch/NPS · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
LeptastreaPBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Leptastrea transversa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

33 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

9 formations

Boat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WBoat Cove — 29.23°S, 177.88°WMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WSalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°W

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The named rock units Leptastrea transversa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptastrea transversa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Leptastrea transversa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

233 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Leptastrea transversa, 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

19 references

Each of the 33 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. 7 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 transversa

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

No 3D scan of Leptastrea transversa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLeptastrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klunzinger 1879