Morphastrea

No picture of Morphastrea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Morphastrea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgariciidaePBDB
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 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences154.8 Mya72.2 Mya163 Mya64 Mya

18 occurrences of Morphastrea on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

18 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

12 formations

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EOrbitolina Limestone — 33.05°N, 51.95°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WSant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°EGlen Rose Limestone — 30.00°N, 98.20°WSanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°EMal Paso — 18.48°N, 100.70°WZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°E

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The named rock units Morphastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Morphastrea and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Morphastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

190 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Morphastrea, 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

15 references

Each of the 18 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. 3 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 Morphastrea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Morphastrea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Morphastrea 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 itAgariciidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1850