Acropora bancellsae

No picture of Acropora bancellsae 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 Acropora bancellsae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcroporaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEocene145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66 Mya41.03 Mya145 Mya36 Mya

4 occurrences of Acropora bancellsae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

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

La Tossa — 41.58°N, 1.67°ETarbur — 32.00°N, 51.65°E

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The named rock units Acropora bancellsae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acropora bancellsae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Acropora bancellsae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acropora bancellsae, 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

2 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Acropora bancellsae 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 Acropora bancellsae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acropora bancellsae 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 itAcropora through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Álvarez-Pérez 1997