Siderastrea stellata
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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 most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Siderastrea stellata on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Siderastrea stellata and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Siderastrea stellata and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Favia gravida3 sites
- Agaricia2 sites
- Homotrema2 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Lithoporella2 sites
- Mussismilia hispida2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Porolithon2 sites
- Acervulinidae1 site
- Dendropoma1 site
- Dendropoma irregulare1 site
- Mussismilia braziliensis1 site
- Mussismilia harttii1 site
- Sporolithon1 site
- Vermetidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Siderastrea stellata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Reef bioconstructors of the Rocas Atoll, Equitorial South Atlantic1
- The status of eastern Brazil coral reefs during the last 5000 years1
- Rocas (southwestern equatorial Atlantic, Brazil): an atoll built primarily by coralline algae1
Each of the 3 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 content1
Picture of Siderastrea stellata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Siderastrea stellata 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 itSiderastrea through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Verrill 1868