Flabellum pavoninum

Flabellum pavoninum is a species of deep sea coral belonging to the family Flabellidae. It is found in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean at depths varying from 73 to 665 m. They are sometimes known as dentures of the sea because of the perceived resemblance of the corallum (skeleton) to a set of dentures.

Flabellum pavoninum

René Lesson · 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
FlabellumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Flabellum
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Flabellum
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Flabellum
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Flabellidae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 25 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Flabellum pavoninum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

25 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

8 formations

Grand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WTorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°ETonohama — 33.43°N, 133.97°EOta — 41.07°N, 140.42°EYanagawa — 37.80°N, 140.50°ENias — 1.08°N, 97.77°E

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The named rock units Flabellum pavoninum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flabellum pavoninum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Flabellum pavoninum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

341 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Flabellum pavoninum, 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

12 references

Each of the 25 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 Flabellum pavoninum

Credit
René Lesson
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Flabellum pavoninum 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.

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 itFlabellum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesson 1831