Meandrina

Meandrina is a genus of colonial stony coral in the family Meandrinidae. Corals in this genus form massive hemispherical heads or have large flat plates and can grow to a metre (yard) across. Sometimes it is referred to as brain coral.

Meandrina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeandrinidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
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 90 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 90 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 90 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 90 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 90 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 90 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 90 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 45 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

90 occurrences of Meandrina 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

90 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

30 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIronshore — 19.65°N, 80.10°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.42°WIronshore — 19.27°N, 81.38°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WSomerset — 18.22°N, 77.10°WSomerset — 18.32°N, 77.18°WTavo — 7.97°N, 49.78°ETavo — 9.25°N, 50.63°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WAbu Hashish — 29.17°N, 18.83°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WRiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°ETroy Limestone — 18.35°N, 77.27°WTerravecchia — 37.67°N, 13.98°EPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°ERancho Berlin Sandstone — 16.85°N, 92.92°W

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The named rock units Meandrina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Meandrina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Meandrina, 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

37 references

Each of the 90 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. 25 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 Meandrina

Credit
Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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. Lamarck 1801