Meandrina brasiliensis
Dornicke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- MeandrinaPBDB
- 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 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Meandrina brasiliensis on record. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene38%
- Pliocene38%
- Pleistocene13%
- Holocene13%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Meandrina brasiliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Manicina areolata3 sites
- Porites astreoides3 sites
- Acropora cervicornis2 sites
- Agaricia agaricites2 sites
- Antillia dentata2 sites
- Colpophyllia natans2 sites
- Eusmilia fastigiata2 sites
- Manicina2 sites
- Manicina puntagordensis2 sites
- Placocyathus alveolus2 sites
- Placocyathus barretti2 sites
- Placocyathus costatus2 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis2 sites
- Porites baracoaensis2 sites
- Porites divaricata2 sites
- Porites furcata2 sites
- Siderastrea siderea2 sites
- Stephanocoenia intersepta2 sites
- Stylophora monticulosa2 sites
- Thysanus excentricus2 sites
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora palmata1 site
- Agaricia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meandrina brasiliensis, 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
4 references- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata4
- Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast Jamaica2
- Resource partitioning and paleoecology of Neogene free-living corals as determined from skeletal stable isotope composition1
- Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of Florida1
Each of the 8 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. 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 content1
Picture of Meandrina brasiliensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dornicke
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Meandrina brasiliensis 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 itMeandrina through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)