Agaricia

Agaricia is a genus of colonial stony corals in the family Agariciidae. These corals are found in shallow waters of the West Indies.

Agaricia

LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) from Cleveland, Ohio, USA · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AgariciidaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 3 of 446 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 56 of 446 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 55 of 446 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 303 of 446 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 26 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 101 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 120 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 116 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

446 occurrences of Agaricia 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

446 occurrences

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

36 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.38°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.15°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WIsla Colon — 9.35°N, 82.17°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.22°N, 61.37°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WSeroe Domi — 12.16°N, 69.00°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WHato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WKey Largo Limestone — 25.13°N, 80.38°WKey Largo Limestone — 24.93°N, 80.58°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WRiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WSant Elm — 39.75°N, 2.63°ESan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WValiente — 9.14°N, 81.95°WMao Adentro — 19.52°N, 70.83°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 70.80°W

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The named rock units Agaricia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 77 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agaricia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Agaricia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

513 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 168 sites for Agaricia, 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

55 references

Each of the 446 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. 43 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Agaricia

Credit
LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) from Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Agaricia fragilis contracta

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAgariciidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1801