Thamnasteria coquandi
Étallon · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- ThamnasteriaPBDB
- 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 most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Thamnasteria coquandi 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
7 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Thamnasteria coquandi and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Thamnasteria coquandi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Calamophylliopsis flabellum2 sites
- Adelocoenia pistillum1 site
- Calamophyllia furcata1 site
- Cladophyllia ramea1 site
- Complexastrea1 site
- Cyathophora bourgueti1 site
- Fungiastraea arachnoides1 site
- Heliocoenia bendukidzeae1 site
- Heliocoenia zaglica1 site
- Meandrophyllia amedei1 site
- Microsolena fromenteli1 site
- Stylina girodi1 site
- Stylina tenax1 site
- Thecosmilia vurguni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Thamnasteria coquandi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Etude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'est du Bassin de Paris5
- Biostratigrafiya verkhneyurskikh otlozheniy Malogo Kavkaza (Azerbaydzhana) po skleraktiniyam [Upper Jurassic biostratigraphy of the Lesser Caucasus (Azerbaidzhan) based on scleractinians]2
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Thamnasteria coquandi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Étallon
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Thamnasteria coquandi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThamnasteria through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Étallon 1859)