Pironastrea

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 21 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence56 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Pironastrea 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

21 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

8 formations

Valiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WAnguilla — 18.21°N, 63.08°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WLares — 18.28°N, 66.87°WGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°E

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The named rock units Pironastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pironastrea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pironastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pironastrea, 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

13 references

Each of the 21 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. 1 further reference is 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 Pironastrea 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 Pironastrea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pironastrea 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 itSiderastreidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Achiardi 1875