Cyphastrea serailia

Cyphastrea serailia

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 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 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 81 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 81 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 81 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 56 of 81 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 13 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 33 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

81 occurrences of Cyphastrea serailia 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

81 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

18 formations

Boat Cove — 29.28°S, 177.85°WBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WBoat Cove — 29.23°S, 177.88°WNias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WDayrell — 29.25°S, 177.82°WSalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°ERiukiu limestone — 23.00°N, 122.00°ESamadai — 25.00°N, 34.93°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EShagra — 25.25°N, 34.80°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°ESampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°E

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The named rock units Cyphastrea serailia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyphastrea serailia and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Cyphastrea serailia, 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

34 references

Each of the 81 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. 22 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 serailia

Credit
Philippe Bourjon
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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)