Morycastraea

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PamiroseriidaePBDB
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 least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya211.18 Mya245.3 Mya200.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Morycastraea 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

3 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

Bortepa — 37.50°N, 74.50°EBortepa — 39.27°N, 73.45°EKarchowice — 50.58°N, 18.17°E

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

Morycastraea and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Morycastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Morycastraea, 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 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Morycastraea 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 itPamiroseriidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Melnikova 1984