Goniopora imperatoris

Goniopora imperatoris

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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 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 50 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 50 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 50 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 50 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 50 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences66 Mya2.58 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Goniopora imperatoris on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

50 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

22 formations

Anguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WAntigua — 17.14°N, 61.82°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.70°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WSimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EGurabo — 19.45°N, 71.07°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WSign — 18.48°N, 77.58°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.70°WSanta Ana — 16.83°N, 92.95°WPedregoso — 11.08°N, 69.93°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.27°WIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.27°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.67°WQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°ETarbur — 31.42°N, 51.53°E

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The named rock units Goniopora imperatoris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniopora imperatoris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Goniopora imperatoris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Goniopora imperatoris, 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

16 references

Each of the 50 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. 4 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 Goniopora imperatoris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goniopora imperatoris 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.

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What may have been alongside itGoniopora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1919