Heliofungia actiniformis
Heliofungia actiniformis is a solitary species of mushroom coral, a large polyp stony coral in the family Fungiidae. This coral is found in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region, as it is a zooxanthellate. H. actiniformis is a popular coral in the reef aquarium trade; wild populations are threatened by disease, climate change, and over-collection for the aquarium trade, and the species is considered vulnerable by the IUCN.
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- HeliofungiaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Fungiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Fungiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Fungiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fungiidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
4 occurrences of Heliofungia actiniformis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heliofungia actiniformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliofungia actiniformis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Heliofungia actiniformis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
157 taxa- Galaxea fascicularis3 sites
- Porites3 sites
- Psammocora columna3 sites
- Acropora muricata2 sites
- Astreopora myriophthalma2 sites
- Blastomussa simplicitexta2 sites
- Ctenactis echinata2 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites2 sites
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum2 sites
- Cyphastrea serailia2 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Favia2 sites
- Favites abdita2 sites
- Favites pentagona2 sites
- Fungia2 sites
- Fungia fungites2 sites
- Galaxea astreata2 sites
- Goniastrea australensis2 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
- Herpolitha limax2 sites
- Hydnophora exesa2 sites
- Hydnophora microconos2 sites
- Leptastrea purpurea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heliofungia actiniformis, 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
4 references- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
- Evidence of high sea level during isotope stage 5c in Queensland, Australia1
- A Late Pleistocene coral fauna from Evans Head, N.S.W.1
- Corals from a lower Pliocene patch reef in Central Java1
Each of the 4 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 Heliofungia actiniformis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Diego Delso
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Heliofungia actiniformis 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 itHeliofungia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quoi and Gaimard 1833)