Alveopora polyacantha

Alveopora polyacantha

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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 least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

16 occurrences of Alveopora polyacantha 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

16 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

4 formations

Gelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°EDomaring — 2.00°N, 112.00°ETokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°W

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The named rock units Alveopora polyacantha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alveopora polyacantha and its relatives

Miocene

Where Alveopora polyacantha and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Alveopora polyacantha, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 Alveopora polyacantha

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Alveopora polyacantha 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.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1867