Acropora exarata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcroporaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
12 occurrences of Acropora exarata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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 Acropora exarata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acropora exarata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Acropora exarata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
285 taxa- Pocillopora madreporacea6 sites
- Porites collegniana5 sites
- Stylophora raristella5 sites
- Tarbellastraea ellisiana5 sites
- Turbinaria cyathiformis5 sites
- Acropora lavandulina4 sites
- Caulastrea matheroni4 sites
- Culicia parasita4 sites
- Diploastrea diversiformis4 sites
- Favites4 sites
- Favites neglecta4 sites
- Heliastrea saucatsensis4 sites
- Porites4 sites
- Aquitanastraea piveteaui3 sites
- Balanophyllia italica3 sites
- Dendrophyllia amica3 sites
- Diploastrea miocenica3 sites
- Favites neugeboreni burdigalensis3 sites
- Goniopora3 sites
- Lithophyllia3 sites
- Paracyathus turonensis3 sites
- Rhizangia martini3 sites
- Siderastrea miocenica3 sites
- Tarbellastraea aquitaniensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Acropora exarata, 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- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]8
- Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène4
Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Acropora exarata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acropora exarata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcropora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelotti 1838)