Cyphastrea chalcidicum

Cyphastrea chalcidicum

Paul Muir · CC BY 4.0 · 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
CyphastreaPBDB
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 least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 31 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–640 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences640 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences15.9 Mya11.7 ka19.2 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Cyphastrea chalcidicum 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

31 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

7 formations

Nias — 0.85°N, 97.87°ENias — 0.75°N, 97.85°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°ETogopi — 5.25°N, 119.20°E

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The named rock units Cyphastrea chalcidicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyphastrea chalcidicum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cyphastrea chalcidicum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cyphastrea chalcidicum, 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

16 references

Each of the 31 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Cyphastrea chalcidicum

Credit
Paul Muir
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyphastrea chalcidicum 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 itCyphastrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forskal 1775)