Thamnasteria scita

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

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 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 152.21 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.6 Mya165.3 Mya175.2 Mya151.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Thamnasteria scita 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

3 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

3 formations

Badamu — 34.17°N, 56.67°EKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°EQal´eh Dokthar Limestone — 33.92°N, 57.33°E

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The named rock units Thamnasteria scita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Thamnasteria scita and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Thamnasteria scita, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Thamnasteria scita 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.

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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)