Pocillopora ligulata

Pocillopora ligulata

NPS photo - Bryan Harry · Public Domain · 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 most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12.1 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Pocillopora ligulata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

4 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.

Pocillopora ligulata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pocillopora ligulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pocillopora ligulata, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Pocillopora ligulata

Credit
NPS photo - Bryan Harry
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pocillopora ligulata 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 itPocillopora through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1846