Siderastreidae

Siderastreidae is a family of reef building stony corals. Members of the family include symbiotic algae called Zooxanthellae in their tissues which help provide their energy requirements.

Siderastreidae

D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
FungiinaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 192 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 700 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 700 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 700 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 700 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 48 of 700 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 78 of 700 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 700 occurrencesEocene — about 37 of 700 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 49 of 700 occurrencesMiocene — about 147 of 700 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 57 of 700 occurrencesPleistocene — about 224 of 700 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 5 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 16 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 14 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 7 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 23 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 25 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 8 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 13 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 14 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 8 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 12 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 9 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 62 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 53 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 54 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 341 occurrences192.9 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

700 occurrences of Siderastreidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

700 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

149 formations

Ironshore — 19.30°N, 81.20°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WHato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WHato — 12.20°N, 69.08°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.22°N, 61.37°WTamana — 10.34°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WTamana — 10.47°N, 61.22°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.02°N, 14.47°EKorycany — 49.93°N, 15.38°EKorycany — 50.02°N, 15.18°EKorycany — 50.63°N, 13.82°EKorycany — 50.05°N, 15.13°EKorycany — 49.88°N, 15.30°ETamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 27.32°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WBoat Cove — 29.28°S, 177.85°WBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WBoat Cove — 29.23°S, 177.88°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WImperial — 33.02°N, 116.07°WImperial — 32.80°N, 116.07°WImperial — 32.87°N, 115.98°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.31°N, 82.14°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WSeroe Domi — 12.13°N, 68.95°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.70°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.70°WLa Quinta — 17.18°N, 92.63°WBila hora — 50.17°N, 14.17°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EBila hora — 49.88°N, 15.30°ECulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WBermont — 26.67°N, 80.68°WBermont — 26.70°N, 80.37°WArcadia — 27.88°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.95°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 27.92°N, 82.45°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.44°N, 109.46°W

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The named rock units Siderastreidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 125 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 308 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siderastreidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Siderastreidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,646 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 282 sites for Siderastreidae, and this reads 240 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

260 references

Each of the 700 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. 248 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 Siderastreidae

Credit
D. Gordon E. Robertson
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Siderastreidae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan and Wells 1943