Ovalastrea polygonalis

Ovalastrea polygonalis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119.57 Mya106.3 Mya126.3 Mya100 Mya

3 occurrences of Ovalastrea polygonalis 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

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.

Ovalastrea polygonalis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Ovalastrea polygonalis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ovalastrea polygonalis, 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

2 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

Media content1

Picture of Ovalastrea polygonalis

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ovalastrea polygonalis 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 itOvalastrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1958