Madrepora granulata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MadreporaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Madrepora
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Oculinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocene60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya23.04 Mya60.1 Mya15.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Madrepora granulata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

11 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

4 formations

Red Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°EKoheroa Siltstone — 37.67°S, 175.15°ETumaio Limestone — 43.75°S, 176.67°EPahi Greensand — 36.15°S, 174.22°E

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The named rock units Madrepora granulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Madrepora granulata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Madrepora granulata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Madrepora granulata, 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

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Madrepora granulata 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 Madrepora granulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Madrepora granulata 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 itMadrepora through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tenison-Woods 1880)