Millepora

Fire corals (Millepora) are a genus of colonial marine organisms that exhibit physical characteristics similar to that of stony coral. While coral is in the name, fire corals are not true (stony) corals but are instead more closely related to Hydra and other hydrozoans, making them a part of the organism known as hydrocorals. Fire Corals make up the only genus in the monotypic family Milleporidae.

Millepora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MilleporinaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa

Time the record covers

At least 372 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 107 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 107 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 107 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 107 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 107 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 107 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 107 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 107 occurrencesOligocene — about 9 of 107 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 107 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 107 occurrencesPleistocene — about 46 of 107 occurrences396–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–369 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–145 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences145–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–26 Mya — about 14 occurrences26–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 79 occurrences372.15 Mya11.7 ka396 Mya0 Mya

107 occurrences of Millepora 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

107 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

20 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WCastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°ESiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WSiamaná — 12.03°N, 71.42°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WAssomada — 14.91°N, 23.49°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WTroy Limestone — 18.35°N, 77.27°WSwanswick — 18.37°N, 77.12°WSomerset — 18.22°N, 77.10°WSalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°EQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WBelsué-Atarés — 42.55°N, 0.70°WTakamaka Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°EPattish — 31.30°N, 34.70°EBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°W

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The named rock units Millepora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Millepora and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Millepora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Millepora, 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

68 references

Each of the 107 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. 56 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 Millepora

Credit
Photo2222
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 was 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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What may have been alongside itMilleporina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.