Septastrea

Septastrea

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
RhizangiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rhizangiidae

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 48 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 48 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 48 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Septastrea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

48 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

23 formations

Tamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 27.32°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EWaccamaw — 33.83°N, 78.89°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.03°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 31.23°N, 96.70°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EChowan River — 36.05°N, 76.73°WDubar — 11.33°N, 49.30°ENashua — 27.53°N, 80.81°WMurdock Station — 25.90°N, 81.30°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WJackson Bluff — 30.38°N, 84.63°WUsiacurí — 10.75°N, 74.98°WUpper Bhuban — 23.73°N, 92.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°E

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The named rock units Septastrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Septastrea and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Septastrea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

796 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Septastrea, 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

28 references

Each of the 48 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. 16 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 content3

Picture of Septastrea

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
SEPTASTREA MARYLANDICA · UF:IP:173886

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849