Montastrea cavernosa

Montastrea cavernosa

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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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 127 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 127 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 127 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 73 of 127 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.3–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–6.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 66 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

127 occurrences of Montastrea cavernosa 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

127 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

Ironshore — 19.65°N, 80.10°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.35°N, 81.08°WIronshore — 19.27°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.15°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WSeroe Domi — 12.13°N, 68.99°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.30°WIsla Colon — 9.31°N, 82.14°WIsla Colon — 9.35°N, 82.17°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.08°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 71.07°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WFalmouth — 18.50°N, 77.33°WBlanquilla — 11.85°N, 64.62°WBelmont — 12.44°N, 61.47°WMao — 19.52°N, 71.13°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.28°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WChipola — 30.48°N, 85.18°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.97°N, 83.07°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°W

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The named rock units Montastrea cavernosa 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. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Montastrea cavernosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Montastrea cavernosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Montastrea cavernosa, 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

41 references

Each of the 127 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. 29 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 Montastrea cavernosa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linne 1767)