Scolymia lacera

Scolymia lacera, the fleshy disk coral, is a species of stony coral in the family Mussidae. It occurs on reefs in shallow waters in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, Bermuda and southern Florida.

Scolymia lacera

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScolymiaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Scolymia lacera 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

7 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

6 formations

Manchioneal — 18.18°N, 76.42°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WSeroe Domi — 12.14°N, 68.99°W

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The named rock units Scolymia lacera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scolymia lacera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Scolymia lacera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Scolymia lacera, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content2

Picture of Scolymia lacera

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itScolymia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1766)