Madracis decaseptata
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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 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Madracis decaseptata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
3 formations
- Old Bank Formation2
- Sign Formation · White Limestone Group1
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
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The named rock units Madracis decaseptata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Madracis decaseptata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Madracis decaseptata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Astreopora goethalsi1 site
- Astrocoenia incrustans1 site
- Astropecten1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Clypeaster1 site
- Deania1 site
- Diplocrinus1 site
- Echinometra lucunter1 site
- Echinoneus cyclostomus1 site
- Goniopora imperatoris1 site
- Histocidaris1 site
- Isocrinus1 site
- Montastrea cylindrica1 site
- Montastrea endothecata1 site
- Montastrea tampaensis1 site
- Mycelites ossifragus1 site
- Neocrinus decorus1 site
- Oichnus1 site
- Ophiomusium1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Porites macdonaldi1 site
- Porites waylandi1 site
- Prionocidaris1 site
- Solenastrea bournoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Madracis decaseptata, 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
3 references- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata2
- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica1
- Corals from the Chipola and Jackson Bluff Formations of Florida1
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
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No picture of Madracis decaseptata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Madracis decaseptata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Madracis decaseptata 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weisbord 1971)