Phillipsastrea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhillipsastreidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 51 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 368.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
225 occurrences of Phillipsastrea on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
225 occurrencesThese 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
61 formations
- Portilla Formation22
- Imperial Formation11
- Twin Falls Formation9
- Kakisa Formation9
- Mount Hawk Formation9
- Hay River Formation8
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The named rock units Phillipsastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phillipsastrea and its relatives
DevonianWhere Phillipsastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
448 taxa- Thamnophyllum29 sites
- Tabulophyllum26 sites
- Alveolites21 sites
- Disphyllum21 sites
- Hexagonaria21 sites
- Thamnopora21 sites
- Macgeea19 sites
- Peneckiella14 sites
- Crinoidea11 sites
- Temnophyllum11 sites
- Coenites10 sites
- Heliolites10 sites
- Acanthophyllum9 sites
- Favosites8 sites
- Frechastraea8 sites
- Mictophyllum8 sites
- Ostracoda8 sites
- Piceaphyllum8 sites
- Smithiphyllum8 sites
- Syringopora8 sites
- Chaetetes7 sites
- Hunanophrentis7 sites
- Pantophyllum7 sites
- Stromatopora7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Phillipsastrea, 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
59 references- The distribution of rugose corals in Frasnian outcrop sequences of North America42
- Frasnian rugose corals of western Canada, part 3A: The massive Phillipsastreidae - Phillipsastrea, Chuanbeiphyllum31
- Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition12
- Rzhonsnitskaya, 196810
- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores9
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska9
- Phillipsastreids and Ptenophyllids (Rugosa) from the Givetian of Mauritania and Northwestern Spain7
- Middle Devonian reef facies and development in the Oued Cherrat Zone and adjacent regions (Moroccan Meseta)6
- Facies and diagenesis of the Devonian Portilla Limestone Formation between the River Esla and the embalse de la Luna, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain6
- Some Devonian corals and stromatoporoids from northeast Thailand5
- Rugose corals of the Lower-Middle and Middle-Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)5
- At the southern limits of the Devonian reef zone: Palaeoecology of the Aferdou el Mrakib reef (Givetian, eastern Anti‐Atlas, Morocco)4
Each of the 225 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. 47 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 content1

Picture of Phillipsastrea
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPhillipsastreidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849