Acropora clathrata

NPS photo - Larry Basch · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- 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 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Acropora clathrata 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene25%
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.
Acropora clathrata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Acropora clathrata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Acropora cytherea1 site
- Acropora hyacinthus1 site
- Acropora robusta1 site
- Astrea annuligera1 site
- Dermatolithon1 site
- Hydrolithon onkodes1 site
- Mesophyllum1 site
- Neogoniolithon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acropora clathrata, 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- Paleontology and depositional environments of the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt2
- Postglacial growth history of a French Polynesian barrier reef tract, Tahiti, central Pacific1
- Wallace, 19991
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acropora clathrata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- NPS photo - Larry Basch
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acropora clathrata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAcropora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brook 1891)