Stylophora africana
No picture of Stylophora africana 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 Stylophora africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StylophoraPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
2 occurrences of Stylophora africana on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Stylophora africana 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.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Porites2 sites
- Porites multilamellata2 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acanthastrea hillae1 site
- Acanthastrea polygonalis1 site
- Alveopora daedalea1 site
- Alveopora deningeri1 site
- Anisocoenia1 site
- Anisocoenia variabilis1 site
- Astreopora1 site
- Astreopora hemisphaerica1 site
- Astreopora hochstetteri1 site
- Astrocoenia gerthi1 site
- Caulastrea1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Circophyllia1 site
- Circophyllia farquharsoni1 site
- Coenocyathus anthophyllites1 site
- Columastrea1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corallina1 site
- Cyathoseris1 site
- Cyathoseris crassilamellata1 site
- Cyathoseris lophiophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stylophora africana, 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
2 references- Carbonate deposition in accretionary prism settings: Early Miocene coral limestones and corals of the Makran Mountain Range in southern Iran1
- Jurassic and Kainozoic corals from Somaliland1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Stylophora africana 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 Stylophora africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stylophora africana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itStylophora through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latham 1929