Agaricia lamarcki

U.S. Geological Survey · Public Domain · 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.

Sits inside

AgariciaPBDB

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

• Miocene9%
• Pliocene5%
• Pleistocene81%
• Holocene4%

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.

Where Agaricia lamarcki and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Agaricia agaricites44 sites
• Agaricia grahamae29 sites
• Stephanocoenia duncani28 sites
• Stephanocoenia intersepta28 sites
• Agaricia undata27 sites
• Madracis decactis26 sites
• Montastraea cylindrica26 sites
• Madracis myriaster22 sites
• Manicina areolata20 sites
• Placocyathus variabilis17 sites
• Siderastrea siderea17 sites
• Colpophyllia natans16 sites
• Dichocoenia stokesi15 sites
• Montastraea cavernosa13 sites
• Orbicella limbata13 sites
• Porites astreoides13 sites
• Porites branneri13 sites
• Leptoseris cucullata11 sites
• Madracis asperula11 sites
• Mycetophyllia reesi11 sites
• Montastraea faveolata9 sites
• Montastraea franksi8 sites
• Mussa angulosa8 sites
• Acropora cervicornis7 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Agaricia lamarcki, 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.

• Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa RicaBudd et al., 1999 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph36
• Comparison of Caribbean coral reef communities before and after Plio-Pleistocene faunal turnover: Analyses of two Dominican Republic reef sequencesKlaus and Budd, 2003 · Palaios · journal article3
• Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast JamaicaBudd and McNeill, 1998 · Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology · journal article3
• Coral growth rates from the Holocene Canada Honda fossil reef, southwestern Dominican Republic: comparisons with modern counterparts in high sedimentation settingsCuevas et al., 2009 · Caribbean Journal of Science · journal article2
• Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project coresBudd and Manfrino, 2001 · in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 · book/book chapter2

Each of the 46 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851