Madracis decactis

Madracis decactis

Hoeksema et al. (2017) · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MadracisPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Madracis
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Madracis
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Astrocoeniidae

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 50 of 73 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 31 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Madracis decactis 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

73 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

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WSeroe Domi — 12.14°N, 68.99°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WScotland — 13.22°N, 59.55°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.40°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WMao Adentro — 19.52°N, 70.83°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°W

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The named rock units Madracis decactis 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.

Madracis decactis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Madracis decactis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Madracis decactis, 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

11 references

Each of the 73 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 Madracis decactis

Credit
Hoeksema et al. (2017)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Madracis decactis 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 itMadracis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lyman 1859)