Septastrea matsoni
No picture of Septastrea matsoni 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 Septastrea matsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Septastrea matsoni 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
- Usiacurí Formation1
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The named rock units Septastrea matsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Septastrea matsoni and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Septastrea matsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Septastrea matsoni, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Septastrea matsoni 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 Septastrea matsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Septastrea matsoni 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.
Keep going
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. Vaughan 1919