Plesiastrea grayi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlesiastreaPBDB
- 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 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
6 occurrences of Plesiastrea grayi 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
6 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
4 formations
- Ghasr Ghand Formation2
- Gianti Formation · Hafún Group1
- Saidabad Coral Limestone Formation1
- Tavo Formation1
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The named rock units Plesiastrea grayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plesiastrea grayi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Plesiastrea grayi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Favia2 sites
- Hydnophora rudis2 sites
- Monticulastraea insignis2 sites
- Monticulastraea solidior2 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acanthastrea hillae1 site
- Acanthastrea polygonalis1 site
- Alveopora daedalea1 site
- Alveopora deningeri1 site
- Anisocoenia1 site
- Anisocoenia variabilis1 site
- Astreopora1 site
- Astreopora hemisphaerica1 site
- Astreopora hochstetteri1 site
- Astrocoenia gerthi1 site
- Caulastrea1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Coenocyathus anthophyllites1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corallina1 site
- Cyathoseris1 site
- Cyathoseris crassilamellata1 site
- Cyathoseris lophiophora1 site
- Cyathoseris parvistella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Plesiastrea grayi, 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
4 references- Carbonate deposition in accretionary prism settings: Early Miocene coral limestones and corals of the Makran Mountain Range in southern Iran2
- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)2
- The Oligo-Miocene of Eil (NE Somalia): a prograding coral-Lepidocyclina system1
- Das Becken von Isfahan-Saidabad und seine altmiocäne Korallenfauna [The Isfahan-Saidabad Basin and its Miocene coral fauna]1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Plesiastrea grayi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plesiastrea grayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPlesiastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kühn 1933