Mycetophyllia reesi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MycetophylliaPBDB
- 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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Mycetophyllia reesi 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
15 occurrences- Pliocene3%
- Pleistocene97%
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
2 formations
- Moin Formation · Limon Group14
- Hope Gate Formation1
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The named rock units Mycetophyllia reesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mycetophyllia reesi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mycetophyllia reesi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Agaricia agaricites14 sites
- Agaricia undata12 sites
- Agaricia lamarcki11 sites
- Madracis decactis11 sites
- Montastraea cylindrica11 sites
- Agaricia grahamae10 sites
- Stephanocoenia intersepta10 sites
- Manicina areolata8 sites
- Stephanocoenia duncani8 sites
- Colpophyllia natans7 sites
- Madracis myriaster7 sites
- Dichocoenia stokesi6 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis6 sites
- Madracis asperula5 sites
- Montastraea cavernosa5 sites
- Stephanocoenia spongiformis5 sites
- Leptoseris cucullata4 sites
- Mycetophyllia danaana4 sites
- Porites astreoides4 sites
- Scolymia cubensis4 sites
- Siderastrea siderea4 sites
- Manicina puntagordensis3 sites
- Mycetophyllia lamarckiana3 sites
- Orbicella limbata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Mycetophyllia reesi, 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
2 references- Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica14
- 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Mycetophyllia reesi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mycetophyllia reesi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMycetophyllia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wells 1973