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Actinostroma expansum ✝

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	370544	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=370544

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Actinostroma expansum	species	belongs to Actinostroma	stated without evidence	Hall and Whitfield, 1873

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

388 - 384 Ma
Middle Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

383 - 372 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Stromatoporoidea)

Vision

blind (based on Stromatoporoidea)

Diet

suspension feeder, photosymbiotic (based on Stromatoporoidea)

Taphonomy

high Mg calcite (based on Stromatoporoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F.T. Fürsich. 2006. Unpublished data from Kachchh.

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1873	Actinostroma expansum Hall and Whitfield

Fürsich F.T. (2006) Unpublished data from Kachchh

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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