Leptoria phrygia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptoriaPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
81 occurrences of Leptoria phrygia 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
81 occurrences- Oligocene3%
- Miocene2%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene65%
- Holocene14%
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
17 formations
- Riukiu Limestone Formation4
- Nabire Formation2
- Merizo Formation2
- Salayar Formation2
- Era Beds Formation1
- Upper Kalibeng Formation1
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The named rock units Leptoria phrygia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptoria phrygia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Leptoria phrygia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
430 taxa- Goniastrea retiformis18 sites
- Porites16 sites
- Acropora15 sites
- Platygyra daedalea13 sites
- Dipsastraea speciosa11 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma10 sites
- Goniastrea stelligera10 sites
- Favites abdita9 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis9 sites
- Goniastrea pectinata9 sites
- Platygyra lamellina9 sites
- Pocillopora verrucosa9 sites
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum8 sites
- Cyphastrea serailia8 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora8 sites
- Montipora8 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata7 sites
- Acropora robusta7 sites
- Astrea curta7 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida7 sites
- Galaxea astreata7 sites
- Hydnophora microconos7 sites
- Pocillopora damicornis7 sites
- Acropora humilis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Leptoria phrygia, 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
44 references- Limited membership in Pleistocene reef coral assemblages from the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea: constancy during global change10
- Geological and geographical distribution of reef-corals in Japan8
- Field work Vanuatu4
- Les Madreporaires fossiles de Mare [The fossil corals from Mare]4
- Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan3
- A 300000-yr coral reef record of sea level changes, Mururoa atoll (Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia)3
- The fossil corals of Christmas Island3
- Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene2
- Coral variation in two deep drill cores: significance for the Pleistocene development of the Great Barrier Reef2
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands2
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)2
- Geology and geomorphology of Henderson Island2
Each of the 81 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. 32 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 Leptoria phrygia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Diego Delso
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itLeptoria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ellis and Solander 1786)