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Craterastraea crateriformis

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Coscinaraeidae

Taxonomy
Thamnasteria crateriformis was named by Gregory (1900). It is the type species of Craterastraea.

It was recombined as Craterastraea crateriformis by Beauvais (1978), Pandey et al. (2000), Pandey and Fürsich (2005).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1900Thamnasteria crateriformis Gregory
1978Craterastraea crateriformis Beauvais
2000Craterastraea crateriformis Pandey et al.
2005Craterastraea crateriformis Pandey and Fürsich

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyCoscinaraeidae
genusCraterastraea
speciescrateriformis(Gregory 1900)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialo
Clonal: yeso
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: microcarnivoreo
Diet 2: photosymbiotico
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:46
Modified: 2009-10-09 15:38:42
Source: o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Middle Bathonian to the top of the Early/Lower Albian or 168.20000 to 110.10000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3India (Kachchh) Craterastraea crateriformis (24050)
Middle Bathonian168.2 - 165.3India (Rajasthan) Craterastraea crateriformis (92927)
Bathonian - Middle Callovian168.2 - 161.5Iran (Tabas Area) Craterastraea crateriformis (41410 41414)
Callovian165.3 - 161.5Jordan Craterastraea crateriformis (83639)
Callovian165.3 - 161.5Tunisia (Taţāwīn) Craterastraea crateriformis (83347)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Iran (Tabas Area) Craterastraea crateriformis (41422)
Late/Upper Aptian - Early/Lower Albian119.57 - 110.1Iran (Razavi-Chorasan) Craterastraea crateriformis (83393)