Septastrea marylandica

Septastrea marylandica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SeptastreaPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

7 occurrences of Septastrea marylandica 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

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

6 formations

Tamiami — 27.32°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WJackson Bluff — 30.38°N, 84.63°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°W

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The named rock units Septastrea marylandica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Septastrea marylandica and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Septastrea marylandica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Septastrea marylandica, 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

6 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. 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 Septastrea marylandica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

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

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 itSeptastrea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1841)