Thamnasteria gracilis

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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 least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 19 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 17 of 19 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya139.1 Mya175.5 Mya131.8 Mya

19 occurrences of Thamnasteria gracilis 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

19 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

5 formations

Badamu — 33.08°N, 56.17°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.12°WMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°E

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The named rock units Thamnasteria gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thamnasteria gracilis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

427 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Thamnasteria gracilis, 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

13 references

Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Thamnasteria gracilis 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 Thamnasteria gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thamnasteria gracilis 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.

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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. (Muenster 1829)