Silingastraea japonica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudocoeniopsisPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Silingastraea japonica on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Toiba Formation1
- Hiraiga Sandstone Formation · Miyako Group1
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The named rock units Silingastraea japonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Silingastraea japonica and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Silingastraea japonica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Silingastraea japonica, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
3 references- Early Cenomanian coral faunas from Nea Nikopoli (Kozani, Greece; Cretaceous)1
- Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects1
- Mesozoic hexacorals from Japan1
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
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No picture of Silingastraea japonica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Silingastraea japonica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Silingastraea japonica 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPseudocoeniopsis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eguchi 1951)