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Clausastrea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5430187	https://www.gbif.org/species/5430187
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	54317	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=54317

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Montlivaltiidae : Clausastrea

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
subclass	Zoantharia	de Blainville 1830
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900
suborder	Faviina	Vaughan and Wells 1943
superfamily	Faviicae	Gregory 1900
family	Montlivaltiidae	Dietrich 1926
genus	Clausastrea	d'Orbigny 1849

Scientific Name

Clausastrea d'Orbigny, 1849

Name Published In

Note Polyp. Foss.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Clausastrea	genus	belongs to Montlivaltiidae	stated with evidence	Roniewicz, 1976
Clausastrea	genus	belongs to Montlivaltiidae	stated without evidence	Errenst, 1990
Clausastrea	genus	belongs to Scleractinia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Clausastrea	genus	misspelling of Clausastrea	stated with evidence	Kiessling, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

176 - 172 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 70.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Scleractinia)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Faviina)

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

photosymbiotic, suspension feeder (based on Montlivaltiidae)

Reproduction

alternating, asexual, dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Scleractinia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Faviina)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Errenst. 1990. Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 1. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 214:121-207

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Astrea lamellostriata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Clausastrea alloiteaui ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	151 Ma Late Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Clausastrea alnisensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clausastrea arnaudi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clausastrea bellomontensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clausastrea bohemoslovaka ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Clausastrea bolzei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clausastrea calloviensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Clausastrea costata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Clausastrea daschkessanica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	161 Ma Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Clausastrea dubia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Clausastrea edwardsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	176 Ma Early Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Clausastrea eliasovae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Clausastrea julistephanovi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Clausastrea korthensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	161 Ma Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Clausastrea lamellostriata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clausastrea magna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Clausastrea neuvicensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clausastrea parva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Clausastrea plana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Clausastrea pseudoconfluens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	161 Ma Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Clausastrea querolensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	161 Ma Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Clausastrea radisensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Clausastrea saltensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Clausastrea superficialis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	151 Ma Late Jurassic	136 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Clausastrea tesselata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Clausastrea tessellata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	172 Ma Middle Jurassic
Clausastrea topalensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	156 Ma Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Latimaeandra plana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Maeandramorpha daschkessanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Meandraraea korthensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thamnastraea calloviensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1850	Clausastrea d'Orbigny
1973	Maeandramorpha Babayev
1976	Clausastrea Roniewicz
1990	Clausastrea Errenst
2002	Clausastraea Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Maeandramorpha Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Errenst C. (1990) Das korallenführende Kimmeridgium der nordwestliche Iberischen Ketten und angrenzender Gebiete (Fazies, Paläogeographie und Beschreibung der Korallenfauna), Teil 1, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 214, 121-207

Babayev R. G. (1973) , Pozdneyurskiye shestiluchevyye korally (skleraktinii) severo-vostochnoy chasti Malogo Kavkaza (Azerbaydzhan) [Upper Jurassic Scleractinia from the northeastern Lesser Caucasus (Azerbaidzhan)], 3-167

Roniewicz E. (1976) Les scléractiniaires du Jurassique supérieur de la Dobrogea centrale, Roumanie, Palaeontologia Polonica 34, 17-121

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per synonymized taxon - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per base taxon - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris Zool., (3) 12 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Note Polyp. Foss. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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