Solenastrea hyades

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SolenastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB, for Faviidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Faviidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Faviidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
20 occurrences of Solenastrea hyades on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
20 occurrences- Miocene35%
- Pliocene22%
- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene10%
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
9 formations
- Tamiami Formation2
- Baitoa Formation2
- La Cruz Formation1
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
- Bermont Formation1
- Fort Thompson Formation1
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The named rock units Solenastrea hyades has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Solenastrea hyades and its relatives
MioceneWhere Solenastrea hyades and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
333 taxa- Siderastrea siderea5 sites
- Stephanocoenia intersepta4 sites
- Diploria labyrinthiformis3 sites
- Goniopora imperatoris3 sites
- Orbicella annularis3 sites
- Porites porites3 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni3 sites
- Acar domingensis2 sites
- Agaricia2 sites
- Chione2 sites
- Dichocoenia stokesi2 sites
- Goniopora hilli2 sites
- Manicina areolata2 sites
- Manicina grandis2 sites
- Meandrina2 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis2 sites
- Montastrea cavernosa2 sites
- Orbicella limbata2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Porites astreoides2 sites
- Porites waylandi2 sites
- Pseudodiploria strigosa2 sites
- Scolymia lacera2 sites
- Acer rubrum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Solenastrea hyades, 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
10 references- Late Cenozoic corals of south Florida5
- Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), part 1. The genera Montastrea and Solenastrea4
- Geology of the Republic of Haiti3
- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs2
- Expanded Florida reef development during the mid-Pliocene1
- Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data1
- Holocene reef development along the northeastern St. Croix shelf, Buck Island, US Virgin Islands1
- Miocene (Badenian) corals from Duplek, NE Slovenia1
- Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of Florida1
- Notes on the corals from the fossiliferous tuffs of Roche Bluff, in The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B.W.I. The volcanic history and petrology of Montserrat with observations on Mt Pelé, in Martinique1
Each of the 20 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 Solenastrea hyades
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Nhobgood
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Solenastrea hyades 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 itSolenastrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)