Hydnophora

Hydnophora

Ryan McMinds · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
MerulinidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 164 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 164 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 164 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 164 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 164 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 164 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 164 occurrencesPleistocene — about 59 of 164 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 9 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–111 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 15 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 13 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 75 occurrences119.57 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

164 occurrences of Hydnophora 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

164 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

47 formations

Castro Limestone — 40.00°N, 18.42°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 32.95°N, 52.14°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EGuayanilla — 18.02°N, 66.78°WGuayanilla — 17.97°N, 66.92°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WPakhna — 34.97°N, 34.07°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EDubar — 11.33°N, 49.30°EEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°ETavo — 7.97°N, 49.80°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°EYalam — 4.47°S, 151.88°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°EBranderfleck — 47.63°N, 11.67°EAntigua — 17.10°N, 61.70°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.80°WUm ad Dahiy — 29.75°N, 18.13°EDehirdan — 26.47°N, 57.91°EGashr Ghand — 26.02°N, 61.01°ESabz — 27.32°N, 57.12°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°E

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The named rock units Hydnophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 83 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hydnophora and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Hydnophora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,072 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Hydnophora, 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

83 references

Each of the 164 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. 71 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 content2

Picture of Hydnophora

Credit
Ryan McMinds
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer de Waldheim 1807