Thamnasteria mettensis

Thamnasteria mettensis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 157.9 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 69 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 68 of 69 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 69 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 12 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 15 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 15 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 15 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya159 Mya175.2 Mya157.4 Mya

69 occurrences of Thamnasteria mettensis on record, most of them in the Middle 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

69 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

9 formations

Calcaire à polypier de Frotey — 47.73°N, 6.00°EVršatec Limestone — 49.05°N, 18.19°EVršatec Limestone — 49.04°N, 18.16°EBaghamshah — 32.42°N, 56.83°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°ECalcaire d’Audun-le-Tiche — 49.47°N, 6.02°EBadamu — 33.08°N, 56.17°ESikhor — 33.92°N, 57.25°EKorond — 34.25°N, 57.42°EHauptraugenstein — 47.48°N, 7.95°E

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The named rock units Thamnasteria mettensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thamnasteria mettensis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Thamnasteria mettensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Thamnasteria mettensis, 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

11 references

Each of the 69 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 Thamnasteria mettensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851