Isopora

Isopora is a genus of small polyp stony coral in the phylum Cnidaria.

Isopora

Liné1 · CC BY 2.5 · 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
AcroporidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 157 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 157 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 102 of 157 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 21 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 119 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Isopora 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

157 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

10 formations

Seroe Domi — 12.13°N, 68.95°WSeroe Domi — 12.15°N, 69.00°WSobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°ELimestone unit AII — 32.22°N, 171.88°WTokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EHateruma — 24.04°N, 123.79°EMiyako-jima — 24.80°N, 125.28°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°E

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The named rock units Isopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 109 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isopora and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Isopora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Isopora, 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

34 references

Each of the 157 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. 22 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 content3

Picture of Isopora

Credit
Liné1
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Isopora sp. · USyD:FOSSIL CORAL REEF CORE:SWIFT N-1C-4A-2

3D model

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

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 itAcroporidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Studer 1878)