Stylophora ponderosa
No picture of Stylophora ponderosa 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 ponderosa, 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 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
3 occurrences of Stylophora ponderosa 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Stylophora ponderosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Acropora panamensis1 site
- Acropora saludensis1 site
- Actinacis barretti1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium1 site
- Astreopora1 site
- Caryophyllidae1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Cidaroida1 site
- Cyathoseris1 site
- Cyathoseris formosa1 site
- Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Echinopsis1 site
- Leptoseris1 site
- Lithophaga nigra1 site
- Lithophyllum1 site
- Lithoporella1 site
- Lithothamnion1 site
- Madracis1 site
- Madracis herricki1 site
- Mesophyllum1 site
- Montastraea1 site
- Oculina1 site
- Pavona panamensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stylophora ponderosa, 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
3 references- The Salt Mountain Limestone of Alabama1
- 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
- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs1
Each of the 3 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 ponderosa 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 ponderosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stylophora ponderosa 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. Vaughan 1900