Mycetophyllia

Mycetophyllia is a genus of stony corals in the family Mussidae. The genera are native to the Caribbean Sea and sometimes kept in reef aquariums. Like all corals in the family Mussidae, Mycetophyllia are hermatypic, or reef-building corals. They receive nutrients from their symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, which are single-celled photosynthetic dinoflagellates. They are passive suspension feeders that feed on organic matter suspended in the water column.

Mycetophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MussinaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 100 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 100 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 100 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 100 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 100 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 100 occurrencesPleistocene — about 77 of 100 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 73 occurrences66 Mya129 ka74 Mya0 Mya

100 occurrences of Mycetophyllia 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

100 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

19 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.38°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WTamana — 10.47°N, 61.22°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.40°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.15°N, 77.42°WManchioneal — 18.18°N, 76.42°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WTokca — 38.05°N, 29.73°ETokca — 38.10°N, 29.77°EOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°ERancho Berlin Sandstone — 16.85°N, 92.92°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WTokça — 29.72°N, 38.12°EQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°W

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The named rock units Mycetophyllia 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.

Mycetophyllia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mycetophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Mycetophyllia, 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

19 references

Each of the 100 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. 7 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 content1

Picture of Mycetophyllia

Credit
Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848