Monticulastraea insignis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonticulastraeaPBDB
- 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 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
16 occurrences of Monticulastraea insignis 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
16 occurrences- Early Cretaceous3%
- Late Cretaceous28%
- Paleocene13%
- Eocene13%
- Oligocene9%
- Miocene35%
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
8 formations
- Simsima Formation2
- Simsima Formation2
- Ghasr Ghand Formation1
- Dehirdan Formation1
- Qom Formation1
- Ghazij Formation1
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The named rock units Monticulastraea insignis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monticulastraea insignis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Monticulastraea insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Monticulastraea solidior4 sites
- Caulastrea3 sites
- Favia3 sites
- Favites3 sites
- Hydnophora rudis3 sites
- Lithothamnion3 sites
- Montastraea3 sites
- Pachyseris affinis3 sites
- Plesiastrea3 sites
- Acropora2 sites
- Actinastrea ramosa2 sites
- Agathiphyllia2 sites
- Astreopora hemisphaerica2 sites
- Corallina2 sites
- Cunnolites2 sites
- Dipsastraea laxa2 sites
- Goniopora2 sites
- Leptoria2 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Neocoenia lepida2 sites
- Paraplacocoenia rotula2 sites
- Platygyra concentrica2 sites
- Plesiastrea fungiformis2 sites
- Plesiastrea grayi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Monticulastraea insignis, 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
8 references- Late Campanian-Maastrichtian corals from the United Arab Emirates-Oman border region4
- Coral fauna across the Cretaceous– Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran3
- Sind fossil corals and Alcyonaria3
- Carbonate deposition in accretionary prism settings: Early Miocene coral limestones and corals of the Makran Mountain Range in southern Iran2
- Scleractinian corals from the Oligocene of the Qom Formation (Esfahan-Sirjan fore-arc basin, Iran)1
- The Oligo-Miocene of Eil (NE Somalia): a prograding coral-Lepidocyclina system1
- Mega-Fauna from the Ghazij Formation (Lower Eocene) Quetta Shahrig area, West Pakistan1
- Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Korallenfauna des Tertiärs von Java. I: Die Korallen des Eocen und des älteren Neogen [The Tertiary coral fauna of Java. I: Eocene and Lower Neogene corals]1
Each of the 16 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
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No picture of Monticulastraea insignis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Monticulastraea insignis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Monticulastraea insignis 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 itMonticulastraea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1880)