Monticulastraea

No picture of Monticulastraea 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 Monticulastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
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 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–58 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences83.6 Mya3.6 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Monticulastraea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

31 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

14 formations

Qom — 31.50°N, 52.73°ESimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ESimsima — 24.48°N, 55.92°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°EUm ad Dahiy — 29.75°N, 18.13°EDehirdan — 26.47°N, 57.91°EAbu Hashish — 29.17°N, 18.83°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°EGhazij — 30.13°N, 67.26°EAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°ETarbur — 31.42°N, 51.53°Esachun — 29.19°N, 52.88°E

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The named rock units Monticulastraea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monticulastraea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Monticulastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Monticulastraea, 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

17 references

Each of the 31 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Monticulastraea 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 Monticulastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Monticulastraea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1880