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Isastrea crassa

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae

Taxonomy
Agaricia crassa was named by Goldfuss (1826). Its type specimen is Lectotype BIOB-PB-Goldfuss-152, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. It is the type species of Confusastrea.

It was recombined as Confusastrea crassa by D'Orbigny (1849) and d'Orbigny (1850); it was recombined as Isastrea crassa by Koby (1885).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1826Agaricia crassa Goldfuss
1849Confusastrea crassa D'Orbigny p. 9
1850Confusastrea crassa d'Orbigny
1885Isastrea crassa Koby

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderFaviinaVaughan and Wells 1943
superfamilyFaviicaeGregory 1900
familyMontlivaltiidae(Duncan 1884)
genusIsastrea(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
speciescrassa()

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.

Isastrea crassa Goldfuss 1826
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitesubo
Grouping: colonialf
Clonal: yesf
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationarysubo
Attached: yessubo
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: photosymbioticf
Diet 2: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2008-02-05 11:59:19
Modified: 2008-02-05 13:59:19
Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2008, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Callovian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 165.30000 to 145.06000 Ma

Collections (21 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian165.3 - 161.5Georgia Isastrea crassa (85937)
Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Germany (Niedersachsen) Isastrea crassa (31437)
Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Switzerland Isastrea crassa (85959)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Germany (Lower Saxony) Isastrea crassa (23909 23910 23911 23912 23913 23917 23918 23923 23924)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Georgia Isastrea crassa (85908)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Poland Isastrea crassa (68365 68366 68367)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian157.9 - 149.2Russian Federation (Karachayevo-Cherkesiya) Isastrea crassa (89995)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian154.8 - 152.21Spain Isastrea crassa (34624)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian154.8 - 152.21Azerbaijan Confusastrea crassa (78466)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) Isastrea crassa (23887)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Isastrea crassa (23904)