Alveopora fenestrata
Alveopora fenestrata is a species of stony coral that is found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the southwest and northern Indian Ocean, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia and the oceanic west Pacific Ocean. It can be found in shallow coral reefs, to a depth of 30 metres (100 ft). It is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching.

Zoe Richards (Australian Museum) · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- AlveoporaPBDB
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Alveopora fenestrata on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Alveopora fenestrata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Alveopora fenestrata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acropora1 site
- Anisocoenia crassisepta1 site
- Astreopora myriophthalma1 site
- Caulastrea1 site
- Cyphastrea microphthalma1 site
- Diploastrea heliopora1 site
- Dipsastraea speciosa1 site
- Galaxea fascicularis1 site
- Goniastrea stelligera1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Kuphus1 site
- Leptoseris hawaiiensis1 site
- Montipora hispida1 site
- Oulophyllia crispa1 site
- Pavona varians1 site
- Platygyra1 site
- Porites1 site
- Porites lutea1 site
- Porites solida1 site
- Stylocoeniella guentheri1 site
- Symphyllia recta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Alveopora fenestrata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Alveopora fenestrata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Zoe Richards (Australian Museum)
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alveopora fenestrata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAlveopora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)