Seriatopora

Seriatopora is a genus of colonial stony corals in the family Pocilloporidae. They are commonly known as needle corals, birdsnest corals or finger corals. They are native to the Red Sea, the Indo-Pacific region and some parts of the Central Pacific Ocean.

Seriatopora

Andreas Pridzun at German Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
PocilloporidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 108 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 108 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 108 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 45 of 108 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 108 occurrencesPleistocene — about 26 of 108 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

108 occurrences of Seriatopora on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

108 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

16 formations

Nias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°ENias — 0.95°N, 97.78°ENias — 1.08°N, 97.77°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EGelingseh — 0.87°N, 117.85°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EDomaring — 2.00°N, 112.00°ERudeis — 25.95°N, 34.30°ERudeis — 25.50°N, 34.65°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EGashr Ghand — 26.02°N, 61.01°ENullarbor Limestone — 30.85°S, 128.08°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.50°N, 124.26°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ETakamaka Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°ESareweh — 7.75°S, 110.13°ETogopi — 5.25°N, 119.20°E

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The named rock units Seriatopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Seriatopora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Seriatopora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

565 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Seriatopora, 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

50 references

Each of the 108 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. 38 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.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Seriatopora

Credit
Andreas Pridzun at German Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPocilloporidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816