Tarbellastraea
Searched as Tarbellastraea cf. eggenburgensis andalousiana. The Paleobiology Database treats Tarbellastraea as the accepted name.
No picture of Tarbellastraea 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 Tarbellastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MerulinidaePBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tarbellastraea on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Tarbellastraea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Tarbellastraea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,105 taxa- Porites89 sites
- Bryozoa59 sites
- Pecten39 sites
- Clypeaster35 sites
- Favites34 sites
- Mesophyllum29 sites
- Heliastrea27 sites
- Heterostegina27 sites
- Lithothamnion27 sites
- Porites collegniana26 sites
- Serpulidae26 sites
- Corallinaceae25 sites
- Lithophaga lithophaga25 sites
- Spongites25 sites
- Corallinophycidae24 sites
- Montastraea24 sites
- Chlamys23 sites
- Conus23 sites
- Acanthastrea22 sites
- Echinoidea21 sites
- Lithophaga20 sites
- Siderastrea20 sites
- Favites neglecta19 sites
- Titanoderma18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 178 sites for Tarbellastraea, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Tarbellastraea 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 Tarbellastraea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tarbellastraea 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 itMerulinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1950