Montipora foveolata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MontiporaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Montipora foveolata on record. 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Montipora foveolata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Acanthastrea echinata2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
- Goniastrea stelligera2 sites
- Hydnophora microconos2 sites
- Leptastrea transversa2 sites
- Leptoria phrygia2 sites
- Oulophyllia2 sites
- Platygyra pini2 sites
- Pocillopora damicornis2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Acanthastrea1 site
- Acanthastrea hillae1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora abrotanoides1 site
- Acropora horrida1 site
- Acropora monticulosa1 site
- Acropora muricata1 site
- Acropora tenuis1 site
- Alveopora verrilliana1 site
- Astrea curta1 site
- Astreopora expansa1 site
- Astreopora myriophthalma1 site
- Australomussa rowleyensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Montipora foveolata, 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- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
- Community structure and petrography of an emergent Holocene reef limestone on Guam1
- Etude des coraux fossiles recolte dans le forage DSDP 76 en mer profonde dans les Tuamotu de Nord [Study of fossil corals taken from the Deep Sea Drilling Project 76 borehole in the deep sea off the northern Tuamotu Islands]1
Each of the 3 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 content1
Picture of Montipora foveolata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Montipora foveolata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)