Orbicella franksi

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OrbicellaPBDB

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

• Miocene16%
• Pliocene3%
• Pleistocene71%
• Holocene11%

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.

Where Orbicella franksi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Colpophyllia natans7 sites
• Acropora cervicornis6 sites
• Siderastrea siderea6 sites
• Diploria labyrinthiformis5 sites
• Montastrea cavernosa5 sites
• Orbicella annularis5 sites
• Orbicella faveolata5 sites
• Porites astreoides5 sites
• Acropora palmata4 sites
• Agaricia agaricites4 sites
• Dichocoenia stokesi4 sites
• Stephanocoenia intersepta4 sites
• Porites porites3 sites
• Pseudodiploria strigosa3 sites
• Agaricia lamarcki2 sites
• Agaricia undata2 sites
• Caulastrea portoricensis2 sites
• Dendrogyra cylindrus2 sites
• Eusmilia fastigiata2 sites
• Isophyllia rigida2 sites
• Isophyllia sinuosa2 sites
• Leptoseris cucullata2 sites
• Manicina areolata2 sites
• Meandrina meandrites2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Orbicella franksi, 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.

• Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmataKlaus et al., 2012 · Coral Reefs · journal article9
• Overlapping species boundaries and hybridization within the Montastrea "annularis" reef coral complex in the Pleistocene of the Bahama IslandsBudd and Pandolfi, 2004 · Paleobiology · journal article2
• Comparison of Caribbean coral reef communities before and after Plio-Pleistocene faunal turnover: Analyses of two Dominican Republic reef sequencesKlaus and Budd, 2003 · Palaios · journal article2
• Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast JamaicaBudd and McNeill, 1998 · Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology · journal article2
• Coral growth rates from the Holocene Canada Honda fossil reef, southwestern Dominican Republic: comparisons with modern counterparts in high sedimentation settingsCuevas et al., 2009 · Caribbean Journal of Science · journal article1
• Interpreting sea surface temperature from strontium/calcium ratios in Montastrea corals: Link with growth rate and implications for proxy reconstructionsSaenger et al., 2008 · Paleoceanography · journal article1
• Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project coresBudd and Manfrino, 2001 · in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 · book/book chapter1
• A Caribbean coral reef community of the PleistoceneJordán-Dahlgren, 1997 · Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium · journal article1

Each of the 19 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1895)