Acropora monticulosa

MDC Seamarc Maldives · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

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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

• Miocene11%
• Pleistocene56%
• Holocene33%

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.

Where Acropora monticulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Acropora abrotanoides3 sites
• Astrea curta3 sites
• Goniastrea retiformis3 sites
• Leptastrea transversa3 sites
• Leptoria phrygia3 sites
• Montipora3 sites
• Platygyra pini3 sites
• Porites3 sites
• Acanthastrea echinata2 sites
• Acropora hyacinthus2 sites
• Acropora tenuis2 sites
• Cyphastrea microphthalma2 sites
• Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
• Dipsastraea favus2 sites
• Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
• Goniastrea edwardsi2 sites
• Heliopora2 sites
• Isopora palifera2 sites
• Leptastrea purpurea2 sites
• Oulophyllia2 sites
• Platygyra daedalea2 sites
• Pocillopora2 sites
• Pocillopora damicornis2 sites
• Pocillopora eydouxi2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Acropora monticulosa, 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.

• Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, JapanHumblet et al., 2009 · Marine Geology · journal article3
• Community structure and petrography of an emergent Holocene reef limestone on GuamSiegrist and Randall, 1985 · Proceedings of the 5th International Coral Reef Congress · journal article2
• Miocene reef-coral diversity of Indonesia: unlocking the murky origins of the Coral TriangleSantodomingo, 2014 · UU Department of Earth Sciences · book1
• Coral variation in two deep drill cores: significance for the Pleistocene development of the Great Barrier ReefWebster and Davies, 2003 · Sedimentary Geology · journal article1
• Pleistocene reef development in the southwest Ryukyu Islands, JapanSagawa et al., 2001 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article1
• Model of fringing reef development in response to progressive sea level fall over the last 7000 years (Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan)Webster et al., 1998 · Coral Reefs · journal article1

Each of the 9 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.

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. (Brüggemann 1879)