Dipsastraea pallida

Dipsastraea pallida is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Merulinidae. It is found in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This is a common species of coral with a widespread distribution, and the main threat it faces is from the destruction of its coral reef habitats. It is rated as a "least-concern species" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This species was first described in 1846 as Favia pallida by the American zoologist James Dwight Dana; it was later transferred to the genus Dipsastraea, but some authorities continue to use the original name.

Dipsastraea pallida

NPS - Larry Basch · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
DipsastraeaPBDB
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 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 102 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 102 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 102 occurrencesPleistocene — about 83 of 102 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 83 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

102 occurrences of Dipsastraea pallida 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

102 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

12 formations

Naha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 0.97°N, 97.78°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°ESamadai — 25.15°N, 34.85°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.45°N, 124.22°EWan — 28.32°N, 129.93°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°EFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°E

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The named rock units Dipsastraea pallida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dipsastraea pallida and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dipsastraea pallida and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

468 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Dipsastraea pallida, 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

42 references

Each of the 102 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. 30 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 Dipsastraea pallida

Credit
NPS - Larry Basch
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itDipsastraea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)