Pocilloporidae

The Pocilloporidae are a family of stony corals in the order Scleractinia occurring in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Pocilloporidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstrocoeniinaPBDB
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 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 11 of 1218 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 1218 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 81 of 1218 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 165 of 1218 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 357 of 1218 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 164 of 1218 occurrencesPleistocene — about 347 of 1218 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 18 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 23 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 25 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 25 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 53 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 72 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 72 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 61 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 51 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 55 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 43 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 59 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 151 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 458 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

1,218 occurrences of Pocilloporidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,218 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

143 formations

Seroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WNias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°ENias — 0.95°N, 97.78°ENias — 0.85°N, 97.87°ENias — 1.08°N, 97.77°ENias — 1.37°N, 97.52°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°EQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WDiscovery 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°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.18°N, 79.78°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.22°N, 61.37°WTamana — 10.46°N, 61.24°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.43°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.73°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WValiente — 9.13°N, 81.90°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WPromina — 43.85°N, 16.15°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°EGrand Bay — 12.50°N, 61.42°WMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EGelingseh — 0.87°N, 117.85°ESiamaná — 12.03°N, 71.42°WSiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WSiamaná — 11.83°N, 71.40°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WOld Pera — 17.88°N, 76.40°WEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EDubar — 11.33°N, 49.30°EDubar — 11.47°N, 49.87°ETamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°W

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The named rock units Pocilloporidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 119 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 626 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pocilloporidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pocilloporidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,821 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 378 sites for Pocilloporidae, and this reads 240 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

266 references

Each of the 1,218 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. 254 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 content1

Picture of Pocilloporidae

Credit
Brocken Inaglory
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pocilloporidae 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1842