Oxypora lacera
Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OxyporaPBDB
- 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 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 Oxypora lacera 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 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene33%
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
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The named rock units Oxypora lacera 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
136 taxa- Dipsastraea favus3 sites
- Favites flexuosa3 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis3 sites
- Plesiastrea versipora3 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata2 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites2 sites
- Cycloseris patelliformis2 sites
- Cynarina lacrymalis2 sites
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum2 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma2 sites
- Cyphastrea serailia2 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
- Dipsastraea laxa2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Duncanopsammia peltata2 sites
- Echinophyllia aspera2 sites
- Euphyllia2 sites
- Favites abdita2 sites
- Favites chinensis2 sites
- Fungia2 sites
- Galaxea astreata2 sites
- Gardineroseris planulata2 sites
- Goniopora lobata2 sites
- Herpolitha limax2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Oxypora lacera, 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- Environmental control of Holocene changes to the world's most northern hermatypic coral outcrop1
- Past corals and recent reefs in Indonesia1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
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 Oxypora lacera
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Oxypora lacera 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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What may have been alongside itOxypora through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Verrill 1864)