Orbicella limbata

Orbicella limbata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 135 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 54 of 135 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 51 of 135 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 29 of 135 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 16 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 16 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 14 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya0 Mya

135 occurrences of Orbicella limbata 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

135 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

27 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 71.07°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.27°WMao — 19.52°N, 71.13°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.28°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.30°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.70°WLa Quinta — 17.18°N, 92.63°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WMao Adentro — 19.52°N, 70.83°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WLa Cruz — 20.00°N, 75.85°WLirio — 18.08°N, 67.88°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WRio Lajas Limestone — 16.83°N, 92.92°WSanta Ana — 16.83°N, 92.95°WAgua Clara — 11.00°N, 70.33°WSan Luis — 11.07°N, 69.88°WPedregoso — 11.08°N, 69.93°WGrand Bay — 12.48°N, 61.44°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°W

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The named rock units Orbicella limbata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbicella limbata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Orbicella limbata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Orbicella limbata, 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

16 references

Each of the 135 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. 4 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 Orbicella limbata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orbicella limbata 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1863)