Siderastrea savignyana

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- SiderastreaPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Siderastrea savignyana 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- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene60%
- Holocene20%
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 Siderastrea savignyana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Siderastrea savignyana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Siderastrea savignyana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Acanthastrea1 site
- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acanthastrea hillae1 site
- Acropora horrida1 site
- Acropora muricata1 site
- Alveopora verrilliana1 site
- Astreopora expansa1 site
- Astreopora myriophthalma1 site
- Australomussa rowleyensis1 site
- Blastomussa simplicitexta1 site
- Ctenactis echinata1 site
- Cycloseris cyclolites1 site
- Cycloseris patelliformis1 site
- Cycloseris sinensis1 site
- Cycloseris somervillei1 site
- Cynarina lacrymalis1 site
- Cyphastrea1 site
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum1 site
- Cyphastrea serailia1 site
- Diploastrea heliopora1 site
- Dipsastraea favus1 site
- Dipsastraea lizardensis1 site
- Dipsastraea matthaii1 site
- Dipsastraea pallida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Siderastrea savignyana, 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
5 references- First Record of Three Pleistocene Scleractinian Coral Families in Seir Peninsula, Farasan Islands: Expanding Red Sea Biodiversity1
- Evidence for ca. 7-ka maximum Holocene transgression on the Peninsular Malaysia east coast1
- Field work Sinai1
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
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
Media content1

Picture of Siderastrea savignyana
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Diego Delso
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Siderastrea savignyana 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849