Manicina areolata

Manicina areolata, commonly known as rose coral, is a colonial species of stony coral. It occurs in shallow water in the West Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, sometimes as small solid heads and sometimes as unattached cone-shaped forms.

Manicina areolata

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
ManicinaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Manicina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Manicina
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Manicina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 112 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 112 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 91 of 112 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 112 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 49 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Manicina areolata 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

112 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

17 formations

Ironshore — 19.30°N, 81.20°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.38°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WBermont — 26.67°N, 80.68°WBermont — 26.70°N, 80.37°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.28°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°W

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The named rock units Manicina areolata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Manicina areolata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Manicina areolata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Manicina areolata, 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

22 references

Each of the 112 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. 10 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 areolata

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

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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What may have been alongside itManicina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)