Pocillopora guadalupensis

Pocillopora guadalupensis

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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 most 118 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence629 ka0 Mya

16 occurrences of Pocillopora guadalupensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

16 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

1 formation

Discovery Point — 29.00°N, 118.27°WDiscovery Point — 28.99°N, 118.23°WDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 28.88°N, 118.29°WDiscovery Point — 28.93°N, 118.23°WDiscovery Point — 29.07°N, 118.23°W

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The named rock units Pocillopora guadalupensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pocillopora guadalupensis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pocillopora guadalupensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Pocillopora guadalupensis, 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

2 references

Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pocillopora guadalupensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pocillopora guadalupensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itPocillopora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durham 1980