Porites furcata

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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.

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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

• Miocene1%
• Pliocene34%
• Pleistocene61%
• Holocene5%

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 furcata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Agaricia agaricites30 sites
• Acropora cervicornis29 sites
• Acropora palmata21 sites
• Porites astreoides20 sites
• Pseudodiploria strigosa19 sites
• Siderastrea siderea18 sites
• Caulastrea portoricensis16 sites
• Orbicella limbata16 sites
• Colpophyllia natans15 sites
• Stylophora granulata14 sites
• Manicina areolata13 sites
• Porites baracoaensis13 sites
• Dichocoenia stokesi11 sites
• Stylophora monticulosa10 sites
• Thysanus9 sites
• Diploria labyrinthiformis8 sites
• Madracis decactis8 sites
• Montastrea cavernosa8 sites
• Porites portoricensis8 sites
• Pseudodiploria clivosa8 sites
• Stylophora affinis8 sites
• Placocyathus variabilis7 sites
• Eusmilia fastigiata6 sites
• Montastraea cavernosa6 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Porites furcata, 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.

• Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa RicaBudd et al., 1999 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph25
• Origination preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefsBudd and Johnson, 1999 · Paleobiology · journal article9
• Ecological persistence interrupted in Caribbean coral reefsPandolfi and Jackson, 2006 · Ecology Letters · journal article8
• Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmataKlaus et al., 2012 · Coral Reefs · journal article6
• Coral Biodiversity and Zonation on a Pleistocene Reef, Southeastern JamaicaJames, 2006 · Jamaica Clearing House Mechanism · journal article5
• Overlapping species boundaries and hybridization within the Montastrea "annularis" reef coral complex in the Pleistocene of the Bahama IslandsBudd and Pandolfi, 2004 · Paleobiology · journal article5
• Broad-scale patterns in Pleistocene coral reef communities from the Caribbean: implications for ecology and managementPandolfi and Jackson, 2007 · Geological approaches to coral reef ecology. Ecological Studies · book/book chapter3
• Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast JamaicaBudd and McNeill, 1998 · Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology · journal article3
• Shifting ecological baselines and the demise of Acropora cervicornis in the western North Atlantic and Caribbean Province: a Pleistocene perspectiveGreenstein et al., 1998 · Coral Reefs · journal article3
• Relict shelf-edge Holocene coral reef: southeast coast of FloridaLighty, 1977 · Proceedings of the 3rd International Coral Reef Symposium · journal article3
• Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project coresBudd and Manfrino, 2001 · in R. N. Ginsburg, ed., Subsurface geology of a prograding carbonate platform margin, Great Bahama Bank: results of the Bahamas Drilling Project. SEPM Special Publication 70 · book/book chapter2
• Community structure of Pleistocene coral reefs of Curacao, Netherlands AntillesPandolfi, 2001 · Ecological Monographs · journal article2

Each of the 86 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. 8 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.

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. Lamarck 1816