Fungiidae

The Fungiidae are a family of Cnidaria, commonly known as mushroom corals or plate corals. The family contains thirteen extant genera. They range from solitary corals to colonial species. Some genera such as Cycloseris and Fungia are solitary organisms, Polyphyllia consists of a single organism with multiple mouths, and Ctenactis and Herpolitha might be considered as solitary organisms with multiple mouths or a colony of individuals, each with its separate mouth.

Fungiidae

Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR · 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
FungiicaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 215 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 413 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 413 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 413 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 413 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 413 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 413 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 413 occurrencesEocene — about 73 of 413 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 413 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 413 occurrencesPliocene — about 75 of 413 occurrencesPleistocene — about 193 of 413 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences116–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 37 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 31 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–15 Mya — about 17 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 289 occurrences215.38 Mya11.7 ka232 Mya0 Mya

413 occurrences of Fungiidae 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

413 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

49 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ENaha — 26.41°N, 127.74°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.57°WSalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 6.08°S, 120.48°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 0.97°N, 97.78°ENias — 1.40°N, 97.47°ENias — 1.38°N, 97.30°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.42°N, 124.17°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.05°N, 123.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°EPirabas — 0.77°S, 47.18°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°ESubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°ETermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°ETonasa — 4.42°S, 119.65°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.50°N, 124.26°ETakanasaki — 24.04°N, 123.79°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°ECrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°E

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The named rock units Fungiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 251 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fungiidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fungiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,868 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Fungiidae, 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

123 references

Each of the 413 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. 111 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 Fungiidae

Credit
Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fungiidae 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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