Stephanocoenia intersepta

Stephanocoenia intersepta, commonly known as blushing star coral or small eyed star coral, is a species of colonial stony corals in the family Astrocoeniidae. This coral is found in shallow waters in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The IUCN has assessed its status as being Near Threatened

Stephanocoenia intersepta

NOAA - Joyce and Frank Burek · Public Domain · 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
StephanocoeniaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Astrocoeniidae

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 87 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 87 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 60 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 18 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 22 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Stephanocoenia intersepta 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

87 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

15 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIronshore — 19.35°N, 81.37°WTamana — 10.22°N, 61.37°WTamana — 10.42°N, 61.25°WRiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WLa Cruz — 20.00°N, 75.85°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.28°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WManchioneal — 18.18°N, 76.42°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WLucayan — 24.65°N, 79.11°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WMao Adentro — 19.52°N, 70.83°W

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The named rock units Stephanocoenia intersepta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stephanocoenia intersepta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Stephanocoenia intersepta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Stephanocoenia intersepta, 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

20 references

Each of the 87 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Stephanocoenia intersepta

Credit
NOAA - Joyce and Frank Burek
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stephanocoenia intersepta 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.

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 itStephanocoenia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Esper 1795)