Porites calabricae

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PoritesPBDB

Diet

photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Poritidae

Life habit

colonial, clonalPBDB, for Poritidae

Motility

stationary, attachedPBDB, for Poritidae

Vision

blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Environment

marinePBDB, for Poritidae

• Miocene100%

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.

Where Porites calabricae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene. Draw the map

• Porites lobatosepta10 sites
• Bryozoa9 sites
• Lithophaga lithophaga9 sites
• Tarbellastraea9 sites
• Conus7 sites
• Cypraea7 sites
• Haliotis tuberculata7 sites
• Serpulidae7 sites
• Talochlamys pusio7 sites
• Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella7 sites
• Aequipecten6 sites
• Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata6 sites
• Chlamys6 sites
• Clypeaster6 sites
• Lima lima6 sites
• Siderastrea crenulata6 sites
• Tarbellastraea reussiana6 sites
• Vermetus6 sites
• Anadara5 sites
• Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum5 sites
• Creusia5 sites
• Gastrana fragilis5 sites
• Palaeoplesiastraea5 sites
• Siderastrea5 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Porites calabricae, 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.

• Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]Saint Martin, 1990 · Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, C · serial monograph8
• Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]Chevalier, 1961 · Memoires de la Societe geologique de France · serial monograph4
• Rosignano reef complex (Messinian), Livornesi Mountains, Tuscany, central ItalyBossio et al., 1996 · SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology · serial monograph1
• Messinian coral reefs of western Orania, AlgeriaSaint Martin, 1996 · SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology · serial monograph1
• The Messinian reef complex of Melilla, northeastern Rif, MoroccoSaint Martin and Cornee, 1996 · SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology · serial monograph1

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. 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.

What may have been alongside itPorites through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961