Alveopora verrilliana
Alveopora verrilliana is a species of stony coral that is found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the northern Indian Ocean, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea, the oceanic west and central Pacific Ocean and the Johnston Atoll. It can also be found in Palau and the southern Mariana Islands. It grows on shallow coral reefs to a depth of 30 metres (100 ft). It is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching and is harvested for the aquarium trade.
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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 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.
7 occurrences of Alveopora verrilliana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene14%
- Pliocene43%
- Pleistocene43%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Alveopora verrilliana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alveopora verrilliana and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Alveopora verrilliana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Acropora4 sites
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum4 sites
- Acanthastrea hemprichii3 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites3 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma3 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida3 sites
- Dipsastraea speciosa3 sites
- Duncanopsammia peltata3 sites
- Goniastrea pectinata3 sites
- Goniopora3 sites
- Hydnophora exesa3 sites
- Leptoria phrygia3 sites
- Orbicella3 sites
- Platygyra lamellina3 sites
- Plesiastrea versipora3 sites
- Porites3 sites
- Stylophora3 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata2 sites
- Astrea curta2 sites
- Astreopora gracilis2 sites
- Cynaria lacrymalis2 sites
- Cyphastrea serailia2 sites
- Dipsastraea favus2 sites
- Euphyllia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Alveopora verrilliana, 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
5 references- Geological and geographical distribution of reef-corals in Japan3
- The evolution of the Great Barrier Reef during the Last Interglacial Period1
- New record of a coral-mollusca reefal community from the early tertiary of Kutch, Gujarat1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
- Die fossilen Anthozoen aus der Umgebung von Trinil [Fossil Anthozoa from Trinil area]1
Each of the 7 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 verrilliana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alveopora verrilliana was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
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What may have been alongside itAlveopora through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1872