Goniopora ameliana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GonioporaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Poritidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Poritidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Poritidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Poritidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Goniopora ameliana on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Goniopora ameliana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Goniopora ameliana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Goniopora ameliana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Cladocora tenuis3 sites
- Stylocoenia taurinensis3 sites
- Acropora ramosi2 sites
- Actinacis cognata2 sites
- Astrocoenia lobatorotundata2 sites
- Ellipsocoenia2 sites
- Goniopora elegans2 sites
- Leptomussa variabilis2 sites
- Montastraea2 sites
- Stylophora2 sites
- Acropora haidingeri1 site
- Antiguastrea1 site
- Antiguastrea lucasiana1 site
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Assilina1 site
- Asterocyclina1 site
- Astreopora tecta1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bolivinidae1 site
- Cyathoseris1 site
- Cyathoseris subregularis1 site
- Desmophyllum1 site
- Dictyaraea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Goniopora ameliana, 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
3 references- Fauna coralina paleogena de las Islas Baleares (Mallorca y Cabrera), Espana [Paleogene coral fauna from the Baleares Islands (Mallorca and Cabrera), Spain]4
- A Bükkhegyseg Eocen Koralljai [Eocene corals from the Bükk Mountains]3
- Facies architecture and coral distiburion in a mid Eocene reef tract, south Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain)2
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Goniopora ameliana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniopora ameliana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Goniopora ameliana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGoniopora through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1826)