Montastrea cylindrica
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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 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
15 occurrences of Montastrea cylindrica 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
15 occurrences- Oligocene13%
- Miocene52%
- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene10%
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
10 formations
- Tamana Formation2
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group2
- Rio Gurabo Formation2
- Mao Formation2
- Gurabo Formation2
- Hope Gate Formation1
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The named rock units Montastrea cylindrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Montastrea cylindrica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Montastrea cylindrica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Orbicella limbata5 sites
- Porites baracoaensis5 sites
- Porites portoricensis5 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni5 sites
- Montastraea endothecata4 sites
- Montastrea endothecata4 sites
- Porites macdonaldi4 sites
- Porites waylandi4 sites
- Stylophora minor4 sites
- Stylophora undata4 sites
- Astrocoenia incrustans3 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis3 sites
- Diploria zambensis3 sites
- Goniopora imperatoris3 sites
- Montastrea brevis3 sites
- Montastrea cavernosa3 sites
- Montastrea trinitatis3 sites
- Acropora panamensis2 sites
- Acropora saludensis2 sites
- Actinacis barretti2 sites
- Agaricia agaricites2 sites
- Agaricia undata2 sites
- Agathiphyllia hilli2 sites
- Alveopora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Montastrea cylindrica, 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
5 references- Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), part 1. The genera Montastrea and Solenastrea6
- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata3
- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica3
- Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad2
- Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast Jamaica1
Each of the 15 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 cylindrica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Montastrea cylindrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1863)