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Wilsonastraea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4881566	https://www.gbif.org/species/4881566
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	6059	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=6059

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Kleopatrinidae : Wilsonastraea

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Stauriida : Kleopatrinidae : Wilsonastraea

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	Rugosa
order	Stauriida	Verrill 1865
family	Kleopatrinidae	Fedorowski et al. 2007
genus	Wilsonastraea	Stevens & Rycerski 1989

Scientific Name

Wilsonastraea Stevens & Rycerski, 1989

Name Published In

J Paleontol 63 (2)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Wilsonastraea	genus	belongs to Rugosa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Wilsonastraea	genus	belongs to Kleopatrinidae	stated with evidence	Fedorowski et al., 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

299 - 296 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

279 - 268 Ma
Permian

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Rugosa)

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Rugosa)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Rugosa)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. H. Stevens and B. Rycerski. 1989. Early Permian colonial rugose corals from the Stikine River area, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 63(2):158-181

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Heritschioides parvum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Heritschioides smithi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Heritschioides summitensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mccloudius fluvius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Waagenophyllum ochocoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Wilsonastraea fluvius ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Wilsonastraea fraseri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Wilsonastraea ochocoensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Wilsonastraea parva ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	299 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Wilsonastraea rigbyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Wilsonastraea smithi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	299 Ma Carboniferous	296 Ma Permian
Wilsonastraea summitensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	299 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1982	Mccloudius Wilson p. 49 figs. 30a-f
1989	Wilsonastraea Stevens and Rycerski p. 173
2002	Wilsonastraea Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Wilsonastraea Fedorowski et al. p. 99

References

Stevens C. H., Rycerski B. (1989) Early Permian colonial rugose corals from the Stikine River area, British Columbia, Canada, Journal of Paleontology 63 2, 158-181

Wilson E. C. (1982) Wolfcampian rugose and tabulate corals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) from the Lower Permian McCloud Limestone of northern California, Contributions in Science, National History Museum of Los Angeles County 337, 1-90

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

Fedorowski J., Bamber E. W., et al (2007) , Lower Permian colonial rugose corals, western and northwestern Pangaea: taxonomy and distribution, 1-231

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

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

J Paleontol 63 (2) - 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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