Plesiastrea

Plesiastraea is a genus of corals. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Plesiastreidae.

Plesiastrea

Benzoni, F. · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlesiastreidaePBDB
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 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 99 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 99 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 99 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 99 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 99 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 39 of 99 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 99 occurrencesPleistocene — about 35 of 99 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–87 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 21 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 11 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

99 occurrences of Plesiastrea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

99 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

28 formations

Nias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°ENias — 1.37°N, 97.52°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WSaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.52°N, 55.88°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.42°N, 55.83°EGlanville — 34.92°S, 137.33°EGlanville — 34.93°S, 137.35°EKöprücay — 37.17°N, 31.10°EKöprücay — 37.45°N, 31.25°ESan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WSalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°EMut — 36.83°N, 33.47°EDehirdan — 26.47°N, 57.91°EGashr Ghand — 26.02°N, 61.01°ESabz — 27.32°N, 57.12°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°ENullarbor Limestone — 30.85°S, 128.08°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EOymapimar Limestone — 37.30°N, 31.12°EAksucay — 37.27°N, 30.78°EMiyako-jima — 24.80°N, 125.28°EVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°EGianti — 9.48°N, 50.82°EEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EGabir — 25.25°N, 34.80°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°E

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The named rock units Plesiastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Plesiastrea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Plesiastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Plesiastrea, 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

49 references

Each of the 99 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. 37 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 content2

Picture of Plesiastrea

Credit
Benzoni, F.
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlesiastreidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848