Pocillopora eydouxi

Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- PocilloporaPBDB
- 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 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
22 occurrences of Pocillopora eydouxi 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
22 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene45%
- Holocene41%
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
5 formations
- Era Beds Formation1
- Aldabra Limestone Formation1
- Dayrell Formation · Herald Group1
- Merizo Formation1
- Nias Formation1
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The named rock units Pocillopora eydouxi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pocillopora eydouxi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pocillopora eydouxi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
264 taxa- Pocillopora verrucosa8 sites
- Acropora robusta7 sites
- Porites7 sites
- Acropora6 sites
- Goniastrea stelligera6 sites
- Leptoria phrygia6 sites
- Porites lobata6 sites
- Acropora humilis5 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis5 sites
- Montipora5 sites
- Acropora abrotanoides4 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma4 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora4 sites
- Dipsastraea favus4 sites
- Favites abdita4 sites
- Fungia4 sites
- Goniastrea pectinata4 sites
- Homotrema4 sites
- Hydrolithon onkodes4 sites
- Leptastrea transversa4 sites
- Platygyra daedalea4 sites
- Plesiastrea versipora4 sites
- Pocillopora damicornis4 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pocillopora eydouxi, 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
19 references- Geology and geomorphology of Henderson Island3
- Variation in deglacial coralgal assemblages and their paleoenvironmental significance: IODP Expedition 310, "Tahiti Sea Level"2
- Quaternary fossil coral communities in uplifted strata along the Balochistan coast of Pakistan: understanding modern coral decline in the Arabian Sea1
- Holocene key coral species in the Northwest Pacific: indicators of reef formation and reef ecosystem responses to global climate change and anthropogenic stresses in the near future1
- Sea-level rise and coral-reef development of northwestern Luzon since 9.9 ka1
- Escaping the heat: range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western Australia1
- Late glacial to post glacial sea levels in the western Indian Ocean1
- Holocene reef development where wave energy reduces accomodation space, Kailua Bay, windward Oahu, Hawaii, USA1
- Origins and development of Holocene coral reefs: a revisited model based on reef boreholes in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean1
- Postglacial growth history of a French Polynesian barrier reef tract, Tahiti, central Pacific1
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands1
- Model of fringing reef development in response to progressive sea level fall over the last 7000 years (Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan)1
Each of the 22 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. 7 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Pocillopora eydouxi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- thehydrous
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPocillopora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Edwards and Haime 1860