Turbinaria

Turbinaria is a genus of colonial stony corals in the family Dendrophylliidae. Common names for this genus include disc coral, scroll coral, cup coral, vase coral, pagoda coral and ruffled ridge coral. These corals are native to the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Japan and the south Central Pacific Ocean.

Turbinaria

Ryan McMinds · CC BY 3.0 · 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
DendrophylliidaePBDB
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 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 92 occurrencesOligocene — about 9 of 92 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 30 of 92 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 92 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 92 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

92 occurrences of Turbinaria 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

92 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

21 formations

Tokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WNuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ELa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WOymapimar Limestone — 37.30°N, 31.12°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°ERiukiu limestone — 23.00°N, 122.00°EFalun de Leognan — 44.66°N, 0.56°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EGianti — 10.42°N, 51.02°EEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WSobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EGabir — 25.25°N, 34.80°EShagra — 25.25°N, 34.80°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°ELajta Limestone — 47.89°N, 18.78°E

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The named rock units Turbinaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turbinaria and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Turbinaria and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

781 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Turbinaria, 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

45 references

Each of the 92 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. 33 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 content2

Picture of Turbinaria

Credit
Ryan McMinds
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
TheRLab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itDendrophylliidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oken 1815