Coeloseris mayeri

Benzoni, F. · CC BY 3.0 · 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoeloserisPBDB
- 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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Coeloseris mayeri 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
14 occurrences- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene96%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Coeloseris mayeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coeloseris mayeri and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Coeloseris mayeri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Cyphastrea microphthalma1 site
- Diploastrea heliopora1 site
- Dipsastraea favus1 site
- Dipsastraea laxa1 site
- Dipsastraea pallida1 site
- Echinopora lamellosa1 site
- Euphyllia1 site
- Favites chinensis1 site
- Favites flexuosa1 site
- Fungia1 site
- Galaxea astreata1 site
- Gardineroseris planulata1 site
- Goniastrea edwardsi1 site
- Goniastrea pectinata1 site
- Goniastrea retiformis1 site
- Goniopora stokesi1 site
- Herpolitha limax1 site
- Hydnophora microconos1 site
- Mycedium elephantotus1 site
- Oxypora lacera1 site
- Pachyseris rugosa1 site
- Pachyseris speciosa1 site
- Platygyra daedalea1 site
- Platygyra lamellina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coeloseris mayeri, 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
6 references- Limited membership in Pleistocene reef coral assemblages from the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea: constancy during global change7
- Last interglacial sea level changes deduced from coral reef terraces in southwest Bohol, central Philippines2
- Past corals and recent reefs in Indonesia2
- Quaternary uplifted coral reef terraces on Alor Island, East Indonesia1
- Uplift rates of the Loyalty Islands as determined by 230Th/234U dating of raised coral terraces1
- Younger Cenozoic Reef-corals from the Nabire Beds of Nabire, Dutch New Guinea1
Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Coeloseris mayeri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Benzoni, F.
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coeloseris mayeri was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itCoeloseris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1918