Platygyra

Platygyra is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae.

Platygyra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 404 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 404 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 404 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 39 of 404 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 404 occurrencesPleistocene — about 269 of 404 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 35 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 306 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

404 occurrences of Platygyra 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

404 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

38 formations

Naha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ESamadai — 25.00°N, 34.93°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°ESamadai — 25.15°N, 34.85°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°ENias — 0.80°N, 97.77°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ESalayar — 6.08°S, 120.48°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EMiyako-jima — 24.80°N, 125.28°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°ESampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°ERyukyu — 24.05°N, 123.78°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°ETogopi — 5.25°N, 119.20°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°ELas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°W

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The named rock units Platygyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 298 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platygyra and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Platygyra and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

866 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Platygyra, 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

127 references

Each of the 404 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. 115 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 content2

Picture of Platygyra

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itMerulinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1834