Psammocora trinitatis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsammocoraPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Siderastreidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Siderastreidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
10 occurrences of Psammocora trinitatis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
10 occurrences- 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Psammocora trinitatis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Psammocora trinitatis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Psammocora trinitatis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Montastrea trinitatis3 sites
- Pavona pennyi3 sites
- Porites trinitatis3 sites
- Agaricia agaricites2 sites
- Agaricia undata2 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis2 sites
- Goniopora hilli2 sites
- Leptoseris gardineri2 sites
- Montastrea brevis2 sites
- Orbicella limbata2 sites
- Porites astreoides2 sites
- Porites waylandi2 sites
- Stylophora granulata2 sites
- Stylophora imperatoris2 sites
- Stylophora minor2 sites
- Stylophora undata2 sites
- Colpophyllia1 site
- Favia dominicensis1 site
- Goniastrea1 site
- Leptoseris walli1 site
- Madracis1 site
- Montastraea endothecata1 site
- Montastrea endothecata1 site
- Mycetophyllia bullbrooki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Psammocora trinitatis, 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- Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad5
- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata3
- Coral assemblages and reef environments in the Bahamas Drilling Project cores2
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Psammocora trinitatis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Psammocora trinitatis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psammocora trinitatis 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 itPsammocora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1926