Madrepora porcellana
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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 most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Madrepora porcellana on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Madrepora porcellana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Madrepora porcellana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Fungiacyathus fragilis2 sites
- Heterocyathus aequicostatus2 sites
- Acanthocyathus grayi1 site
- Balanophyllia gigas1 site
- Bourneotrochus veroni1 site
- Caryophyllia scobinosa1 site
- Cycloseris distorta1 site
- Deltocyathus heteroclitus1 site
- Dendrophyllia subcornigera1 site
- Distichopora nitida1 site
- Flabellum deludens1 site
- Fungiacyathus stephanus1 site
- Letepsammia formosissima1 site
- Notocyathus conicus1 site
- Peponocyathus orientalis1 site
- Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger1 site
- Truncatoflabellum martensii1 site
- Truncatoflabellum vanuatu1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Madrepora porcellana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 porcellana 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 porcellana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Madrepora porcellana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMadrepora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moseley 1881)