Minasteria shastensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MinasteriaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Pamiroseriidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At most 32 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic238–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237.6 Mya205.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Minasteria shastensis 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

7 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

2 formations

Luning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.35°N, 118.10°WLuning — 38.42°N, 118.15°WHosselkus — 40.80°N, 122.12°W

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The named rock units Minasteria shastensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Minasteria shastensis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Minasteria shastensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Minasteria shastensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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 Minasteria shastensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Minasteria shastensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Minasteria shastensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itMinasteria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1927)