Stylophora macdonaldi
No picture of Stylophora macdonaldi 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 macdonaldi, 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Stylophora macdonaldi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Stylophora macdonaldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stylophora macdonaldi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Stylophora macdonaldi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Montastrea imperatoris2 sites
- Porites douvillei2 sites
- Acropora saludensis1 site
- Clypeaster caudatus1 site
- Crassostrea1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Montastraea endothecata1 site
- Montastrea cavernosa1 site
- Montastrea costata1 site
- Pectinidae1 site
- Pegophysema janus1 site
- Periglypta tarquinia1 site
- Porites1 site
- Porites baracoaensis1 site
- Scleractinia1 site
- Siderastrea1 site
- Siderastrea conferta1 site
- Stylophora imperatoris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stylophora macdonaldi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs2
- Riffbau und geologische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insel San Andres (westliches Karibisches Meer, Kolumbien) [Reef building and geological evolution of San Andres Island (western Caribbean Sea, Colombia)]1
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.1
Each of the 4 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 Stylophora macdonaldi 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 macdonaldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stylophora macdonaldi 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 itStylophora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1919