Manicina

Manicina is a genus of reef-building stony corals in the family Mussidae.

Manicina

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
FaviinaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 219 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 219 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 219 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 219 occurrencesMiocene — about 67 of 219 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 43 of 219 occurrencesPleistocene — about 102 of 219 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 54 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 38 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 96 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

219 occurrences of Manicina 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

219 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

24 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.08°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.95°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 70.80°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.20°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.38°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.08°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WBermont — 26.67°N, 80.68°WBermont — 26.70°N, 80.37°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°W"Abu Tartur" — 25.47°N, 30.05°EIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.28°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.28°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WMao Adentro — 19.52°N, 70.83°W

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The named rock units Manicina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Manicina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Manicina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Manicina, 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

28 references

Each of the 219 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. 16 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 Manicina

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1834