Protoheterastrea minor

No picture of Protoheterastrea minor was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Protoheterastrea minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtoheterastreaPBDB
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 most 9.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic237–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237.5 Mya226.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Protoheterastrea minor on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

7 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

2 formations

Misfah — 22.92°N, 57.67°EMisfah — 22.78°N, 57.83°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°E

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The named rock units Protoheterastrea minor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protoheterastrea minor and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Protoheterastrea minor and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Protoheterastrea minor, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Protoheterastrea minor was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protoheterastrea minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protoheterastrea minor 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 itProtoheterastrea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turnsek and Buser 1989