Siderastrea radians

Siderastrea radians, also known as the lesser starlet coral or the shallow-water starlet coral, is a stony coral in the family Siderastreidae. It is found in shallow parts of the western Atlantic Ocean as small, solid mounds or encrusting sheets.

Siderastrea radians

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SiderastreaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Siderastreidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Siderastreidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 58 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 58 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 48 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 40 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Siderastrea radians on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

58 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

13 formations

Ironshore — 19.30°N, 81.20°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WHato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WAssomada — 14.91°N, 23.49°WBermont — 26.67°N, 80.68°WBermont — 26.70°N, 80.37°WManchioneal — 18.18°N, 76.42°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.31°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°ELajta Limestone — 47.89°N, 18.78°E

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The named rock units Siderastrea radians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siderastrea radians and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Siderastrea radians and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Siderastrea radians, 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

26 references

Each of the 58 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Siderastrea radians

Credit
NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Siderastrea radians was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSiderastrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1766)