Trigerastraea ampakabensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrigerastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 400 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya.
2 occurrences of Trigerastraea ampakabensis 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
2 occurrences- Middle 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.
Trigerastraea ampakabensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Trigerastraea ampakabensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Ampakabastraea ampakabensis1 site
- Collignonastraea jumarense radiata n. gen.1 site
- Dimorpharaea ornata1 site
- Isastrea bernardiana1 site
- Isastrea collignoni1 site
- Microphyllia madagascariensis1 site
- Microsolena interjecta1 site
- Stylina ceriomorpha1 site
- Trigerastraea collignoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trigerastraea ampakabensis, 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- Jurassic corals from the Shemshak Formation of the Alborz Mountains, Iran1
- Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]1
Each of the 2 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 Trigerastraea ampakabensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trigerastraea ampakabensis 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 itTrigerastraea through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1958