Stephanocoenia spongiformis
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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 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
26 occurrences of Stephanocoenia spongiformis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
26 occurrences- Miocene31%
- Pliocene35%
- Pleistocene35%
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
7 formations
- Gurabo Formation10
- Moin Formation · Limon Group7
- Mao Formation4
- Urraca Formation2
- Cercado Formation1
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Stephanocoenia spongiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stephanocoenia spongiformis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Stephanocoenia spongiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Stephanocoenia duncani10 sites
- Orbicella limbata9 sites
- Agaricia agaricites8 sites
- Porites portoricensis8 sites
- Madracis decactis7 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni7 sites
- Agaricia lamarcki6 sites
- Porites baracoaensis6 sites
- Agaricia grahamae5 sites
- Montastraea cylindrica5 sites
- Mycetophyllia reesi5 sites
- Spondylus bostrychites5 sites
- Stephanocoenia intersepta5 sites
- Agaricia undata4 sites
- Cerithium obesum4 sites
- Madracis myriaster4 sites
- Manicina grandis4 sites
- Argyrotheca johnsoni3 sites
- Cerithiidae3 sites
- Lyria (Lyria) incomperta3 sites
- Manicina areolata3 sites
- Mycetophyllia danaana3 sites
- Petaloconchus domingensis3 sites
- Porites waylandi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Stephanocoenia spongiformis, 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- Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 4. The genus Stephanocoenia (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Astrocoeniidae)15
- Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica7
- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata2
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Comparison of Caribbean coral reef communities before and after Plio-Pleistocene faunal turnover: Analyses of two Dominican Republic reef sequences1
Each of the 26 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
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No picture of Stephanocoenia spongiformis 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 Stephanocoenia spongiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stephanocoenia spongiformis 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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What may have been alongside itStephanocoenia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1864)