Pocillopora palmata

Pocillopora palmata

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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 15 of 15 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 15 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

15 occurrences of Pocillopora palmata 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

15 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

2 formations

Hato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.40°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.38°W

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The named rock units Pocillopora palmata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pocillopora palmata and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pocillopora palmata, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 15 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pocillopora palmata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pocillopora palmata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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. Palmer 1928