Montastrea brevis
No picture of Montastrea brevis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Montastrea brevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MontastraeaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
18 occurrences of Montastrea brevis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Gurabo Formation10
- Rio Gurabo Formation4
- Tamana Formation3
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Montastrea brevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Montastrea brevis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Montastrea brevis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Orbicella limbata9 sites
- Porites baracoaensis5 sites
- Porites portoricensis4 sites
- Porites waylandi4 sites
- Agaricia agaricites3 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis3 sites
- Cymatium praefemorale3 sites
- Distorsio mcgintyi3 sites
- Goniopora hilli3 sites
- Manicina grandis3 sites
- Montastraea endothecata3 sites
- Montastrea cylindrica3 sites
- Montastrea trinitatis3 sites
- Porites macdonaldi3 sites
- Sconsia laevigata3 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni3 sites
- Argopecten thetidis2 sites
- Argyrotheca johnsoni2 sites
- Caribachlamys jungi2 sites
- Cerithium microlineatum2 sites
- Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus2 sites
- Diploria zambensis2 sites
- Favia dominicensis2 sites
- Latirus (Polygona) fusiformis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Montastrea brevis, 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
3 references- Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), part 1. The genera Montastrea and Solenastrea14
- Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad3
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
Each of the 18 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 content0
No picture of Montastrea brevis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Montastrea brevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Montastrea brevis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMontastraea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1864)