Porites columnaris
No picture of Porites columnaris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Porites columnaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- 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
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Porites columnaris on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Porites columnaris and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Porites columnaris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Acropora pharaonis2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Echinopora gemmacea2 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis2 sites
- Lithophyllon repanda2 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acar plicata1 site
- Acervulina1 site
- Acropora humilis1 site
- Acropora salundensis1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca1 site
- Bursa granularis1 site
- Cardita variegata1 site
- Cardium rugosum gortanii1 site
- Caulastrea connata1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cerithium caeruleum1 site
- Cerithium erythraeonense1 site
- Cerithium rueppelli savignyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Porites columnaris, 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
3 references- Biofacies and diagenetic alterations of the Pleistocene coral reefs, northwest Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia2
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)2
- Pleistocene Reefs of the Red Sea Coast, Sudan: Depositional Environments, Fossil Coral, Age Dating and Diagenesis1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Porites columnaris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Porites columnaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Porites columnaris 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 itPorites through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klunzinger 1879