Thamnasteria

Thamnasteria is a genus of extinct stony corals.

Thamnasteria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThamnasteriidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 425 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 425 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 40 of 425 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 425 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 55 of 425 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 273 of 425 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 33 of 425 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 425 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 425 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 425 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 425 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–229 Mya — about 3 occurrences229–222 Mya — about 8 occurrences222–214 Mya — about 9 occurrences214–207 Mya — about 11 occurrences207–200 Mya — about 10 occurrences200–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–170 Mya — about 13 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 39 occurrences163–155 Mya — about 145 occurrences155–148 Mya — about 96 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 36 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 5 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 5 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 13 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 6 occurrences111–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences243.43 Mya37.71 Mya251 Mya30 Mya

425 occurrences of Thamnasteria on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

425 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

96 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.50°EKorallenoolith — 52.37°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.12°N, 10.10°EKorallenoolith — 52.21°N, 9.20°EKorallenoolith — 52.21°N, 9.13°EKorallenoolith — 52.18°N, 9.60°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 51.97°N, 9.62°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°ELuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.12°WOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°EAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.13°WWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WWhite Limestone — 51.85°N, 1.27°WWhite Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.63°WWhite Limestone — 51.87°N, 1.27°WWhite Limestone — 51.85°N, 1.42°WWhite Limestone — 51.78°N, 1.48°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 48.60°N, 0.63°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EMartin Bridge — 44.97°N, 117.23°WMartin Bridge — 45.32°N, 117.31°WMartin Bridge — 45.37°N, 117.35°WMartin Bridge — 46.29°N, 116.69°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WCabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WCoral Rag — 51.75°N, 1.25°WCoral Rag — 53.98°N, 1.53°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EBadamu — 34.17°N, 56.67°EBadamu — 33.08°N, 56.17°ESchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EKosode — 35.82°N, 138.93°EKosode — 35.80°N, 138.97°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.57°N, 10.35°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°EIkenoue — 34.02°N, 135.18°ESteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EBortepa — 37.33°N, 75.00°EBortepa — 39.27°N, 73.45°EDhruma — 25.33°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.67°ENakanosawa — 37.67°N, 140.95°ETorinosu — 33.97°N, 135.12°E

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The named rock units Thamnasteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 192 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thamnasteria and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Thamnasteria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 267 sites for Thamnasteria, 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

147 references

Each of the 425 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. 135 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 Thamnasteria

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thamnasteria 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

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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. LeSauvage 1823