Acanthastrea lordhowensis

Haplochromis · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthastreaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
2 occurrences of Acanthastrea lordhowensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Acanthastrea lordhowensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acanthastrea lordhowensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acanthastrea lordhowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acanthastrea hemprichii1 site
- Acropora tumida1 site
- Alveopora japonica1 site
- Caulastrea tumida1 site
- Cycloseris cyclolites1 site
- Cycloseris patelliformis1 site
- Cynarina lacrymalis1 site
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum1 site
- Cyphastrea japonica1 site
- Cyphastrea microphthalma1 site
- Cyphastrea serailia1 site
- Dipsastraea amicorum1 site
- Dipsastraea favus1 site
- Dipsastraea laxa1 site
- Dipsastraea speciosa1 site
- Duncanopsammia peltata1 site
- Echinophyllia aspera1 site
- Echinophyllia echinata1 site
- Favites abdita1 site
- Favites flexuosa1 site
- Fimbriaphyllia ancora1 site
- Goniastrea retiformis1 site
- Goniopora lobata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acanthastrea lordhowensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
- Environmental control of Holocene changes to the world's most northern hermatypic coral outcrop1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acanthastrea lordhowensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Haplochromis
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acanthastrea lordhowensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcanthastrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Veron and Pichon 1982